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Diagnosis  From  the  Eye 


A  NEW  ART  OF  DIAGNOSING  WITH  PERFECT  CERTAINTY 

FROM  THE  IRIS  OF  THE  EYE  THE  NORMAL  AND 

ABNORMAL  CONDITIONS  OF  THE  ORGANISM 

IN  GENERAL  AND  OF  THE  DIFFERENT 

ORGANS  IN  PARTICULAR 


A  Scientific  Essay  for  the  Public  and  Medical  Profession 


BY 

HENRY  EDWARD  LANE,  M.  D. 


With  Original  Illustrations 


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KOSMOS  PUBLISHING  CO. 
765  N.  CLARK  STREET. 
CHICAGO,  ILL..  U.  S.  A. 

L.  N.  FOWLER  &  CO., 

7  IMPERIAL  ARCADE,  LUDGATE  CIRCUS. 
LONDON,  ENGLAND. 


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Entered  at 

Library  of  Congress,  Washington,  D.  C. 

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Stationers'  Hall,  London,  England, 

In  the  Year  1004. 


All  Rights  Reserved. 


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Table  of  Contents. 


First  Part. 

Chapter  I.       Introduction  ..... 

Chapter  II.     Allopathy  versus  Natural  Method  of  Healing: 

The  Old  Ways  of  Diagnosis         ...  . 

Chapter  III.   History  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye 
Chapter  IV.   The  Teachings  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye: 

1.  The  Four  Tenets        .... 

2.  The  Increasing  Number  of  Brown  Eyes 

3.  Unnatural  or  Acquired  Colors  .... 

A.  The  Signs  of  Suppressed  Milk  Scurf  and  Scabies 

B.  Medicine  Colors  ..... 
Mercury,   Quinine,   Antipyrin,  Iodine,   Arsenic,    Phosphorus 
Strychnine,   Lead,  Salicylic  Acid,  Creosote,  Turpentine,  Gly 
cerine,  Opium,  Cocain,  Hashish,  Potassium  bromate. 

C.  Signs  of  Vaccinations 

D.  Signs  of  Glandular  Extracts 

E.  Signs  of  Operations 

4.  The  Causes  of  Disease 

5.  The  Density  of  the  Iris 

6.  Signs  of  Defective  Organs 

A.  Signs  of  Inflammation 

B.  Catarrhal  Defects 

C.  Loss  of  Substance;  Nerve  or  Cramp  Rings 
Chapter  V.     Key  to  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye 


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Second  Part. 

The  Practice  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye 


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Third  Part. 

The  Natural  Method  of  Healing             .                           .              .             •             •              .105 

General  Precepts     ..... 

105 

The  Care  and  Treatment  of  the  Child    . 

107 

Indispositions        ...... 

110 

Scabies      ...... 

111 

Leukorrhea — Hemmorhoids 

115 

Blood  Poisoning                 .... 

116 

First  Help  in  Accidents— Burns  and  Scalds 

118 

Sexual  Diseases                .... 

119 

Acute  Diseases      ..... 

122 

Chronic  Diseases                .... 

126 

Reports  of  Nature  Cures 

127 

Epidemics              ..... 

130 

The  Natural  Healing-Factors     .... 

132 

The  Fruitarian  Diet— The  Value  of  Raw  Food 

133 

Air  and  Sun  Baths— Cold-Water  Treatments 

135 

Miscellaneous  Applications 

139 

Magnetic  Healing 

139 

General  Remarks            .             .             .             . 

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141 

Corroboration      ...... 

143 

First  Part.- Chapter  I. 

INTRODUCTION. 

EVERYWHERE  in  the  world  we  perceive  a  steadily  progressing  evo- 
lution ;  it  is  the  common  band  which  ties  together  the  long 
chain  of  beings  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest  one.  This  process  of  evo- 
lution we  can  also  observe  in  the  parts  and  organs  composing  the  body  of 
the  different  creatures. 

The  highest  of  all  earthly  beings  is  undoubtedly  man,  his  most  de- 
veloped part  the  head,  enclosing  the  brain  where  our  spiritual  and  physi- 
cal life  really  takes  place,  where  new  thoughts  originate  and  are  put  into 
action  by  means  of  the  nerves  and  muscles.  Freely  and  loftily  the  head 
of  man  rests  on  his  body,  dominating  it,  looking  up  to  the  stars  and  down 
to  the  earth.  To  retain  a  man's  picture  and  peculiarity  it  is  sufficient  if 
the  hand  of  the  artist  gives  us  the  head  or  the  face,  or  even  only  the 
eyes  and  forehead. 

The  eyes  again,  certainly  are  the  highest  developed  of  all  organs. 
From  them,  like  from  a  fountain  of  rays,  mind  and  soul  send  their  light 
in  love  and  despair,  pity  and  prayer  ;  pure  and  impure  motions  of  the 
soul  are  reflected  upon  the  eyes,  intelligible  to  and  impressive  on  all.  We 
therefore  like  to  look  into  the  eyes  of  our  friends,  speak  of  the  evil  look 
(Jettatura  of  the  Italians),  feel  uneasy  by  the  piercing  look  of  malice, 
cast  down  our  eyes  in  consciousness  of  our  guilt. 

How  unattractive  a  beautiful  face  with  spiritless  eyes  appears,  and 
how  do  even  the  most  unsightly  features  change  as  soon  as  they  are  en- 
livened by  a  spirituous  eye  ! 

With  a  mere  glance  of  the  eye  a  strong  will  can  accomplish  much  to 
instigate  the  masses  to  good  or  bad  deeds,  soften  excited  hearts,  to  be 
effective  even  there  where  he  cannot  reach  with  his  words;  did  we  not  feel 
ourselves  how  much  more  effective  is  a  freely  delivered  speech  than  one 
recited  from  the  manuscript  or  read  by  ourselves  ?  In  the  same  way  we 
are  affected  by  the  depressing  look  of  despair  or  the  jubilant  glance  of  joy. 

That  the  eye  is  the  immediate  tie  between  the  soul  and  the  outer 
world,  that  it  is  "the  mirror  of  the  soul",  is  understood  by  all.  But  un- 
fortunately it  is  almost  unknown  that  it  also  reflects  every  single  part  of 
the  body  and  that  we  are  able  by  systematized  experiences:  the  -wonderful 
science  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye,  to  recognize  with  absolute  clearness  the 
physical  and  mental  condition  of  man. 

First  of  all,  we  wish  to  make  a  few  remarks  in  regard  to  the  relation 
of  the  region  of  the  eyes  to  the  face,  and  about  some  commonly  used 

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sayings.  The  narrower  and  the  more  covered  with  hair  the  eye-brows 
are,  the  more  brilliant  appear  the  skin  of  the  forehead  as  well  as  the 
white  in  the  eye.  The  eyebrow  ought  to  bend  softly  downwards  ;  if  it 
extends  horizontally  or  even  turns  off  upwards,  it  gives  the  face  a  strange, 
diabolical  expression.  If  the  eyebrows  are  situated  too  high,  leaving  too 
much  space  between  them  and  the  iris,  the  face  receives  a  naive  and 
childish  appearance.  We  often  hear  people  speak  of  large  and  small 
eyes,  but  this  distinction  is  erroneous,  because  the  eyeball  as  well  as  the 
iris  are  of  equal  size  in  all  men. 

However,  we  do  not  see  the  whole  eye  before  us,  only  as  much  as 
the  opened  eyelids  are  leaving  free,  an  oval  slit  which  is  on  an  average 
about  9-10  mm.  high.  If  this  slit  opens  up  to  12-13  mm.,  the  eye 
attains  the  agreeable  form  of  an  almond  and  the  much-praised  ' '  moist 
lustre,"  because  then  we  can  not  only  see  the  iris,  but  also  a  strip  of 
white  above  and  below  it,  while  the  always  moist  edges  of  the  lids  make 
an  effective  frame. 

The  eyelashes  also  are  of  importance,  because  if  they  are  long,  dense, 
and  well  situated,  they  make  the  white  of  the  eye  more  brilliant.  Another 
important  mark  for  the  expression  of  the  eye  is  a  small  lineal  furrow  on 
the  upper  lid  ;  this  furrow  is  formed  by  the  backward  folding  of  the  skin 
and  nearly  disappears  when  the  lids  are  closed.  If  the  bright,  somewhat 
moist  edge  of  the  upper  lid  is  a  little  wider  than  usual,  the  eye  takes  a 
kind  of  languishing,  visionary  expression.  The  white  of  the  eyeball  is 
also  of  importance;  this  white  is  produced  through  the  cornea  which 
is  brilliant  white  itself,  being  covered  by  the  conjunctiva  which  is  tra- 
versed by  a  net  of  capillaries.  The  original,  beautiful,  brilliant,  pure 
white  is  scarcely  to  be  found,  because  in  most  individuals  the  conjunc- 
tiva, by  constant  irritation,  attains  a  dim  color  turning  often  into  yellow. 

The  cause  of  the  brilliancy  of  the  eye  is  the  reflex  of  the  light  from 
the  conjunctiva  and  especially  from  the  cornea  ;  the  moister  the  eye,  and 
the  wider  the  opening  of  the  lids  (which,  as  stated,  is  generally  the  case 
in  juvenile  age),  and  the  purer  the  white,  the  more  perfect  is  the  bril- 
liancy. 

Incidentally  and  on  account  of  the  request  to  apply  the  "diagnosis 
from  the  eye"  also  to  animals — the  key  for  them  being  the  same  as  that 
for  men,  a  fact  which  highly  increases  the  value  of  our  art — we  wish  to 
mention  a  scarcely  known  difference  between  the  eyes  of  man  and  those 
of  animals. 

The  eyes  of  man  alone,  in  distinction  from  the  rest  of  beings,  have 
the  shape  of  an  almond  with  two  angles  on  the  sides,  but  all  other  crea- 
tures, including  the  anthropoid  apes,  have  round  eyes.  When  the  latter 
are  in  a  state  of  rest,  only  the  iris  is  visible,  while  the  white  of  the  eye, 
the  sclerotica,  is  covered. 


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Figure  2. 


CHAPTER  II. 

Allopathy  versus  Natural  Method  of  Healing. 


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THE  OLD  WAYS  OF  DIAGNOSIS. 

S  in  all  branches  of  life,  there  exists  to-day  also  in  that  of  medi- 
cal science  an  increased  interest  on  the  part  of  the  public.  And 
rightly  so  ;  for  in  no  other  branch  ignorance  costs  so  dearly,  having  often 
to  be  paid  for  with  years  of  disease  or  premature  death. 

There  are  two  factions  rigidly  and  implacably  opposed  to  each  other. 
On  one  side  stands  allopathy  and  surgery,  trying  in  vain  to  restore  and 
preserve  the  health  of  the  body  by  the  strongest  poisons  and  the  exten- 
sive application  of  the  knife  ;  on  the  other  side,  homeopathy  and  the 
various  ways  of  natural  healing,  having  as  leading  motto  :  "  By  no  means 
injure  the  body." 

The  followers  of  the  healing  methods  according  to  the  laws  of  nature 
— or  better  the  natural  methods  of  healing,  including  homeopathy — have 
always  shown  that  the  degeneration  of  the  human  race  is  largely  due  to 
the  pernicious  influence  of  allopathy  ;  that  the  use  of  poisons,  whatever 
their  names  may  be  and  no  matter  whether  they  are  mineral  like  mercury, 
arsenic,  iodine,  bromine,  or  vegetable  like  belladonna  or  digitalis,  or  ani- 
mal like  ichthyol,  the  vaccines  (against  smallpox,  diphtheria,  etc.),  and 
the  lymphs,  will  always  have  the  same  disastrous  effect  as  the  butchering 
knife  of  surgery. — But  allopathy,  being  endowed  with  important  privi- 
leges by  the  state,  has  also  an  injurious  influence  in  another  direction  :  it 
is  opposed  to  all  real  progress,  true  investigation  and  enlightenment,  and 
rejects  a  priori  all  that  does  not  fit  in  its  system,  declaring  as  "  unscien- 
tific" every  new  truth  which  does  not  come  from  one  of  its  own  ranks  ! 
Homeopathy,  on  the  contrary,  really  and  earnestly  acknowledges  and 
accepts  the  results  of  free  investigation,  and  for  that  reason  alone,  rightly 
deserves  the  name  of  ' '  science. ' ' 

Science  is  a  sum  of  experiences  and  observations  which  everbody  can 
make,  whether  he  belongs  to  the  profession  or  not. 

This  book  deals  with  a  branch  of  pure  and  unadulterated  knowledge 
— its  task  is  to  demonstrate  clearly  and  irrefutably  that  allopathy  is  the 
greatest  enemy  of  mankind.  The  very  fact  that  the  book  by  spreading 
enlightenment  is  detrimental  to  allopathy,  will  make  it  useful  to  human- 
ity, to  the  well  and  sick  alike.     It  treats  of  the  discovery,  that  morbid 


changes  going  on  in  the  system  are  making  themselves  noticeable  in  flic  eye, 
and  the  possibility  to  disclose  the  inner  condition  of  man  by  careful  observation 
of  his  eye,  and  consequently  lo  make  a  diagnosis  which  is  reliable  in  every 
respect.  This  discovery  and  its  perfection  as  a  key  for  diagnostic  purposes 
is  one  of  the  great  achievements  of  the  human  mind,  guiding  us  in  the 
struggle  against  the  drugging  fraternity  and  turning  the  difficult  vocation 
of  the  true  physician  into  one  of  delight  and  satisfaction. 

The  insufficiency  of  the  old  ways  of  diagnosis  by  ausculting,  percus- 
sing, palpating,  examination  of  the  urine,  blood,  sputum,  etc.,  is  ad- 
mitted by  all. 

We  will  mention  here  a  notice  regarding  this  matter,  coming  from 
the  allopathic  circles  of  Berlin  : 

"  In  Professor  Leyden's  clinic  elaborate  experiments  have  been  made 
to  diagnose  the  first  symptoms  of  consumption,  i.  e.  of  an  actual  lung 
disease  (so  far  only  recognized  by  percussion),  by  the  Roentgen  rays, 
which  would  be  an  immense  progress  in  the  diagnosis,  as  at  the  present 
stage  of  medical  science  a  not  too  far  advanced  disease  of  the  lungs  could 
not  be  recognized,  but  in  most  cases  has  been  overlooked." 

Although  the  natural  method  of  healing  rejects  the  complicated 
diagnosis  of  allopathy  and  rightly  demands  a  general  treatment  of  the 
body,  the  former,  nevertheless,  will  have  the  greatest  benefit  also  in 
diagnostic  relation  by  the  "  diagnosis  from  the  eye  "  which,  resting  on  the 
general  treatment  of  the  body,  always  enables  us  to- designate  not  only 
the  immediately  affected  but  also  the  weakest  organs  of  the  body.  The 
diagnosis  from  the  eye  throws  also  light  upon  some  of  the  most  important 
questions,  viz.,  the  connection  of  later  appearing  diseases  with  the  origi- 
nal disease,  the  probable  duration  of  life,  the  various  duration  of  the 
same  disease  with  different  individuals,  etc.  Up  to  the  present  the  fol- 
lowers of  the  natural  method  of  healing  have  been  getting  along  by 
bringing  that  which  was  of  some  value  for  a  diagnosis  into  a  system  called 
' '  facial  diagnosis  ' ' ;  according  to  the  part  of  the  body  where  the  morbid 
matter  had  settled,  they  spoke  of  a  "  morbid  encumbrance  of  the  front, 
side,  or  back  "  and  thereupon  based  their  conclusions. 

Osteopathy,  which  enables  us  in  certain  acute  cases  to  make  a  most 
startling  diagnosis,  does  also  not  quite  fulfill  what  we  can  justly  demand 
from  a  popular  method  of  examination, — it  is  difficult  to  team,  and  only 
few  are  endowed  with  the  fine,  instinctive  sense  of  touch  necessary  for 
making  an  unfailing  diagnosis. 

Osteopathy  and  facial  diagnosis  may  be  very  interesting  for  the  in- 
vestigator, but  they  are  of  little  practical  value,  because  both  systems  do 
but  give  a  general  diagnosis  in  most  cases,  making  it  necessary  to  ques- 
tion the  patient,  a  drcumstance  which  always  gives  a  doubtful  result,  as 
thus  we  can  ascertain  only  incidental  points  ;  but  we  who  air  questioned 
by  the  patient  must  give  him  the  most  precise  information,  and  that  is 
possible  only  by  means  of  "  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye." 

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It  liass  been  said  that  the  eye  is  the  mirror  of  the  soul,  and  that  it 
discloses  the  different  mental  and  physical  conditions  of  the  body:  we  gen- 
erally speak  of  the  "  vivid  clear  eye  "  of  the  well  man,  of  the  "  anguish- 
ing, glaring  eye"  of  the  consumptive,  of  the  "expressionless  eye"  in 
typhoid  fever  and  especially  insanity  (a  contraction  of  the  pupil  in  regular 
intervals  is  noticed  during  the  delirium  in  typhoid  fever),  of  the  "  broken 
eye  "  of  the  dead-sick.  The  enlargement  of  the  pupil  indicates  the  pres- 
ence of  spool-worms  ;  a  small  inecpuality  of  the  pupils  with  the  inclination 
to  enlargement  is  found  in  those  suffering  from  tuberculosis  ;  various 
nervous  diseases  are  disclosed  by  the  decreased  mobility  of  the  pupil  ; 
frequent  disturbances  of  the  sight  are  pointing  to  diseases  of  the  kidneys 
(diabetes),  as  does  also  the  falling-out  of  the  eye-lashes.  The  inward- 
growing  of  the  eye-lashes  discloses  scrofula,  and  reddened  eyes  female 
diseases;  Basedow's  disease  of  the  kidneys  brings  the  eyes  out  of  their 
holes  ;  a  swelling  of  the  eyelids  makes  us  suspect  trichinosis,  etc.,  etc. 

In  a  book  probably  300  years  old  I  found  the  following  instruc- 
tion :  "  Shepherds  judge  the  diseases  of  their  sheep  by  the  lines  (falsely 
called  radii  solarcs)  and  other  signs  of  the  eye.  In  man,  signs  near  the 
iris  indicate  diseases  of  the  lungs  and  chest,  also  cough.  If  children  have 
sound  flesh  in  the  inner  angles  of  the  eye,  it  means  health  ;  if  these 
angles  lie  deep  and  are  devoid  of  flesh,  it  means  disease  or  death.  If  the 
white  of  the  eye  is  turning  into  blue  and  is  veined,  it  indicates  diseases 
of  the  sexual  organs,"— and  so  on  in  a  reallv  interesting  manner. 


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CHAPTER  III. 

History  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye. 


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Mil'  discovery  and  perfection  of  our  diagnosis  from  the  eye,  which 
is  justly  called  a  science,  was  reserved  for  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury.    In  the  following  we  shall  give  a  short  historic  account. 

In  the  year  1880  appeared  a  work  entitled  Entdeckungen  auf  dem 
Gebiete der Natur-  undHeilkunde  (Discoveries  in  the  Realms  of  Nature  and 
Art  of  Healing)  by  Ignaz  Peczely,  a  native  of  Hungary.  In  his  work  he 
expounded  the  theory,  that  "azure  is  the  normal  color  of  the  eye  of  the 
Caucasian  race  ;  that  allopathically  treated  diseases  darken  the  color  of 
the  eyes,"  etc.  This  important  discovery  was  made  by  a  layman  through 
an  insignificant  incident,  as  it  often  happens.  When  a  boy  of  eleven 
years,  Peczely  wanted  to  catch  an  owl  in  his  garden  ;  the  bird  in  self- 
defense  clawed  the  hand  of  the  lad  who  could  fiee  himself  only  by 
breaking  the  bird's  leg.  As  the  boy  and  the  owl  sharply  looked  into 
each  other's  eyes,  the  former  observed  in  the  lower  part  of  the  bird's  eye 
the  rising  of  a  black  stripe.  Young  Peczely  dressed  the  owl's  leg,  nursed 
him  and  finally  gave  him  his  freedom  again.  The  bird,  however,  stayed 
in  the  garden  for  several  years,  and  Peczely  observed  later  in  that  part  of 
the  eye  where  the  black  stripe  had  risen  before,  the  appearance  of  white 
and  crooked  lines. 

Peczely,  a  good  designer,  became  a  technologist,  participated  in  the 
Hungarian  revolt  of  1848,  was  wounded  and  made  a  captive.  In  1861, 
as  a  follower  of  homeopathy,  he  treated  successfully  his  dead-sick  mother; 
this  case  made  him  famous  and  soon  other  patients  sought  his  homeo- 
pathic advice.  At  this  time,  suddenly  recalling  the  little  incident  witli 
the  owl,  he  also  made  his  discovery  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye.  The 
throng  of  patients  constantly  increased,  for  the  fame  of  his  art  of  "  diag- 
nosing from  the  eye  "  spread  rapidly  over  the  country.  Then  the  author- 
ities intervened:  an  allopathic  physician,  accompanied  by  two  exponents 
of  the  '' Christian  Law,"  forbade  him,  not  being  a  "  doctor  of  medicine," 
to  treat  people  hereafter.  To  the  physician's  reproach:  "You  are  a 
quack  pretending  to  read  the  diseases  of  people  from  their  eyes,"  Peczely 
replied  ;  "  Von  have  suffered  from  such  and  such  diseases  which  have 
been  falsely  treated."  Although  greatly  surprised,  the  physician  had  to 
admit  the  correctness  of  the  diagnosis  and  afterwards- did  not  speak  of 
fraud  any  more.  To  avoid  further  annoyance,  Peczely  resolved  to  acquire 
the  title  of  "  doctor  of  medicine,"  and  for  that  purpose — being  36  years 

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of  age- -he  went  to  Budapest  in  1802  and  two  years  later  to  Vienna, 
where  he  had  a  good  opportunity  to  enlarge  his  knowledge  of  the  diag- 
nosis from  the  eye  and  to  confirm  his  original  discovery,  that  each  opera- 
tion leaves  a  sign  in  the  iris,  and  that  all  allopathic  medicines  produce 
changes  in  certain  parts  of  the  eye.  Afterward  he  returned  to  Budapest 
where  he  established  a  practice. 

The  publication  of  the  work  mentioned  above  showed  again  that  only 
the  homeopaths  maintain  the  freedom  of  investigation,  acknowledging 
truth  and  merit  without  envy  and  reserve,  always  eager  to  acquire  more 
knowledge.  The  important  discovery  of  Peczely  was  totally  ignored  by 
the  allopaths,  just  as  upon  agreement ;  it  was  made  known  in  Germany 
by  August  Zoeppritz  who  in  his  Homcopathische  Monatsblaetter  (published 
in  Stuttgart)  advocated  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye.  A  German  homeo- 
path, Dr.  Emil  Schlegel  of  Tuebingen,  also  advocated  the  diagnosis  from 
the  eye  by  publishing  a  book  on  the  subject. 

A  Swedish  homeopath,  Nils  Liljequist,  improved  the  diagnosis  from 
the  eye  by  exceedingly  careful  and  comprehensive  studies.  He  sets  forth 
in  the  following  statement  the  cause  that  gave  him  the  impulse  to  these 
investigations  : 

' '  In  my  thirteenth  or  fourteenth  year  I  was  vaccinated  the  second 
time.  Being  formerly  hale  and  hearty,  I  now  became  sickly  ;  first  the 
lymph  glands  of  my  neck  began  to  swell,  then  I  was  taken  ill  with  mala- 
ria, vehement  cough,  influenza,  polyps  appeared  in  the  nose,  terrible 
pains  in  the  bones  of  the  legs,— and  all  that  in  the  course  of  a  year  after 
the  vaccination.  Physicians  were  consulted  for  years.  They  always  pre- 
scribed iodine  to  besmear  the  swollen  glands,  quinine  for  malaria,  and 
used  the  tongs  to  remove  the  polyps  which,  however,  reappeared  every 
year.  Thus  years  passed  by.  In  the  meantime  I  noticed  how  the  color 
of  my  eyes  changed  more  and  more,  and  when  twenty  years  of  age  I 
brought  forth  my  discovery  :  '  Quinine  and  iodine  change  the  color  of 
the  iris ;  formerly  I  had  blue  eyes,  now  they  are  greenish  with  red  spots 
in  them.'  Nevertheless,  I  continued  taking  medicine,  in  spite  of  the 
warning  of  Dr.  T. ,  a  homeopath  and  then  a  teacher  at  the  Helsingborg 
gymnasium.  He  even  offered  me  homeopathic  remedies  and  let  me  try 
small  granules  of  sugar.  But  why  didn't  I  accept  his  kind  offer?  I  often 
regretted  it,  but  then  my  sound  judgment  was  disturbed  by  a  newspaper 
article  which  wholly  ridiculed  homeopathy.  I  took  the  same  standpoint 
which  the  Royal  Swedish  Board  of  Medicine  still  takes  in  the  year  1893 
and  believed  that  homeopathic  medicine  contained  nothing  but  '  sugar, 
starch,  and  water. '  Besides  I  desired  to  become  a  physician  myself  and 
did  not  care  to  promote  the  '  silly  teachings '  of  homeopathy.  But  the 
longer  and  the  more  I  suffered,  the  more  vanished  my  admiration  for  the 
sacrificing,  philanthropic  vocation  of  the  physician,  and  finally  I  lost  my 
liking  for  it  altogether. 

"When  I  came  to  the  city  of  Lund  in  1871,  I  consulted  there  new 

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physicians,  hoping  they  would  prescribe  for  me  some  better  mixtures  ; 
but  I  was  disappointed.  I  continually  got  quinine  and  iodine  with  the 
addition  of  iron  which  should  help  my  exhausted  stomach.  I  began  to 
protest,  but  the  physician  declared  that  it  would  mean  my  death  if  I 
would  stop  taking  quinine.  As  I  did  not  like  to  die  quite  so  young,  I 
strictly  followed  his  advice.  Sometimes  I  got  up  to  three  grams  of 
quinine  per  dosis.  Thus  I  spent  six  of  the  best  years  of  my  life  on  the 
sick-bed.  Oh  !  If  I  had  only  conformed  myself  to  suffer  from  malaria,  I 
should  have  felt  well  at  least  some  time  in  my  life,  as  the  fever  does  not 
appear  daily  during  the  whole  year.  But  on  account  of  the  quinine  and 
iodine  dosing  I  had  been  constantly  sick  since  my  seventeenth  year  ;  every 
day  vehement  headache,  especially  in  the  forenoon,  heaviness  and  dull- 
ness above  the  eyes,  ringing  in  the  ears, — all  symptoms  of  quinine  poi- 
soning. 

' '  Finally  in  my  thirtieth  year  I  arrived  at  the  conviction  that  there 
must  be  other  methods  to  acquire  health,  and  other  remedies  besides 
those  which  I  had  taken.  Professor  Jaeger's  work  Die  Neural- Analyse 
convinced  me  of  the  truth  and  excellence  of  homeopathy,  and  in  the  year 
1882  I  became  my  own  physician,  and  I  did  not  get  any  worse  on  that 
account.  On  the  contrary,  in  spite  of  having  suffered  from  malaria  for 
seventeen  years,  and  in  spite  of  the  immense  quantities  of  quinine  and 
iodine  which  I  had  swallowed,  I  am  now  at  45  years  of  age  quite  a 
healthy  man,  full  of  love  and  vigor  for  work. 

' '  Some  of  my  readers  have  certainly  encountered  similar  sad  experi- 
ences with  the  allopathic  methods  of  treatment,  because  we  hear  the  same 
complaints  from  different  sources.  And  the  Englishman  who  uttered  the 
famous  sentence,  '  With  40  years  you  are  either  your  own  physician  or  a 
fool,'  has  probably  suffered  by  the  allopathic  'art  of  healing'  just  as 
much  as  I  did.  Sometimes,  in  sleepless  nights  when  I  was  lying  down 
and  brooding  over  the  reason  why  just  I  should  suffer  so  much,  the  only 
consolation  I  could  find  was,  that  our  sufferings  should  remind  us  to 
guard  our  fellowmen  against  similar  misery,  and  if  they  ever  loecame 
afflicted  with  sickness  to  help  them  as  much  as  possible.  And  for  that 
purpose  I  have  written  this  book." 

In  our  key  to  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  we  hope  to  have  solved  and 
cleared  away  in  a  satisfactory  manner  all  indistinctness  and  uncertainty 
of  the  preceding  authors  and  thereby  to  have  perfected  the  diagnosis 
from  the  eye. 

Only  those  who  concern  themselves  with  the  matter  can  comprehend 
what  an  immense  sum  of  work  the  investigations  for  the  key  represent. 
Thousands  had  to  be  thoroughly  examined  before  but  one  point  could  be 
ascertained  with  absolute  certainty,  and  although  the  works  of  the  two 
investigators  mentioned  above  have  brought  them  many  denunciations 
an<l  enmities,  the  history  of  civilization  has  entered  their  names  in  the 

book  of  fame  with   golden  letters. 

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CHAPTER  IV. 

The  Teachings  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye. 


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'HE  background  of  the  eye  has  been  the  subject  of  ardent  investi- 
gations by  the  physicians  since  the  invention  of  the  ophthalmo- 
scope ;  but  none  of  the  investigators  conceived  the  idea  that  we  could 
also  diagnose  by  the  so  strikingly  different  and  easily  perceptible  colors 
of  the  iris  the  pathological  state  of  the  whole  organism. 

The  most  important  point  for  us  in  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  is  the 
color  of  the  iris  from  which  we  can  get  at  once  a  reliable  picture  of  the 
condition  of  the  body,  although  at  first  only  in  general,  and  our  science 
sets  up  the  Fundamental  Doctrine  :  Azure  blue  is  the  normal  color  of  the 
iris  in  all  nations  of  the  Caucasian  race. 

1 .    THE  FOUR  TENETS. 

From  the  further  enlargement  of  this  principal  doctrine,  whose  value 
cannot  be  estimated  too  highly,  the  following  tenets  result  : 

I.  All  new-born  children  of  healthy  parents  have  blue  eyes. 

II.  The  more  the  color  of  the  originally  blue  eye  changes,  often  but 
partly  (for  instance,  into  yellow-brown  until  completely  black):  the  more 
the  body  of  the  respective  individual  is  encumbered  with  morbid  matter 
or  diseased  ;  consequently  a  person  can  be  sick  without  having  pains, 
etc. ,  because  sickness  is  not  a  condition  but  a  process. 

III.  Persons  whose  eyes  changed  in  the  manner  stated  above,  get 
lighter  and  even  blue  eyes  again  ;  under  circumstances  the  color  changes 
only  in  certain  parts.  This  change  is  always  effected  in  the  same  degree 
as  the  morbid  matter  has  been  expelled  from  the  body. 

IV.  Bue-eyed  parents  who  suffered  from  scabies  (itch)  often  beget 
brown-eyed  children,  or  at  least  always  children  whose  iris  is  completely 
surrounded  by  a  blackish  rim,  which  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  calls 
"  scurf  rim." 

In  explanation  of  this  seeming  contradiction  it  may  be  said  right 
here  :  a  child  begotten  of  blue-eyed  but  scabby  parents,  before  father  or 
mother  discharged  this  poison  in  the  form  of  a  skin-disease  ("scabies), 
becomes  brown-eyed,  while  it  had  surely  become  blue-eyed  after  the 
appearance  of  sores  on  the  skin  of  the  parents. 

The  latter  tenet  has  been  confirmed  in  the  most  evident  manner  by 
the  following  case  :  A  man,  35  years  of  age,  was  afflicted  with  scabies, 

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which  was  driven  back  into  his  body  by  ointments  ;  thereupon  a  sore 
appeared  on  the  left  foot.  But  wisely  this  abscess  was  not  suppressed 
and  was  running  for  three  years  ;  a  child  who  was  born  to  him  in  this 
time  had  brown  eyes,  only  that  part  of  the  iris  which  corresponds  to  the 
left  foot  was  blue  in  the  left  eye. 

To  the  first  tenet  is  to  be  added,  that  we  divide  the  eyes  according 
to  their  color  into  three  classes,  viz.:  blue  eyes,  browti  eyes,  and  eyes  hav- 
ing several  colors  or  a  mixed  eofor.  The  first  and  second  class,  which  rep- 
resent the  "  one-colored  "  eyes,  as  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  calls  them, 
are  again  subdivided  into  the  equally  light-blue  normal  or  ideal  eye  which 
can  hardly  be  found  to-day  ;  the  medium-blue  eye,  and  the  dark-blue  eye. 
Brown  eyes  are  classified  the  same  way  ;  it  is  obvious,  however,  that  the 
light-color  is  by  far  the  better  one.  In  the  third  class,  i.  e.  eyes  with  a 
mixed  color,  we  find  the  iris  half-brown,  generally  round  the  pupil,  while 
the  outer  half  is  blue  writh  a  greenish  cast,  popularly  called  "  cat  eye  "; 
more  seldom  is  the  opposite  case  where  the  inner  half  of  the  iris  is 
blueish-green,  wThile  the  outer  half  is  browm  ;  but  it  happens  very  seldom 
that  one  eye  is  predominantly  blue,  while  the  other  one  is  brown  in  the 
same  degree. 

The  history  of  the  world  teaches  us  that  the  blue-eyed  men  and 
women  are  superior  to  the  others  in  every  respect,  a  fact  which  is  also 
proven  by  our  observations  in  family,  school  and  daily  life. 

Only  out  of  the  blue  eye  the  fascinating  power  of  a  forceful  spirit 
can  speak.  Wherever  we  receive  information  in  regard  to  the  color  of 
the  eyes  of  eminent  men,  it  is  described  as  "  brilliant  blue." 

Only  among  blue-eyed  people  we  find  those  vigorous,  resistive  indi- 
viduals who  excel  by  the  strength  and  agility  of  their  body  in  such  a  de- 
gree that  the  giants  of  tradition  seem  to  be  embodied  in  them,  who  sur- 
pass in  strength  the  buffalo  and  in  swiftness  the  gazelle,  who  show  a 
presence  of  mind  under  all  circumstances,  and  wTho  do  not  know  nervous- 
ness, fear,  and  fatigue.  Blue  has  been  the  color  of  the  eyes  of  the  beau- 
ties who  remained  everlastingly  young,  and  that  of  all  long-lived  people. 

The  Roman  historians  report  that  the  victorious  legions  could  not 
bear  the  piercing  looks  of  the  blue-eyed  Teutons.  A  few  attested  feats 
of  physical  strength  and  endurance  of  blue-eyed  people  may  be  mentioned 
here. 

Teutobach,  commander-in-chief  of  the  Teutons  in  their  famous  fight 
against  the  Roman  legions,  often  jumped  over  six  horses  standing  side 
by  side  and  was  able  to  throw  stones  weighing  1000  pounds.  Emperor 
Maximilian,  the  "  last  knight,"  and  his  juvenile  friend  Duke  Christopher 
of  Bavaria  possessed  equally  gigantic  strength.  At  the  royal  residence  in 
Munich,  in  the  passage  from  the  chapel  to  the  court  fountain,  there  lies 
a  stone  weighing  400  pounds  which   I  hike  Christopher  has  thrown  once, 

and  above  the  stone,  in  a  height  of  \l  feet,  there  is  a  nail  with  an  old 
memorial  slate  as  a  sign  of  a  powerful  jump  once  performed  by  him 

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Archduke  Ferdinand  of  Austria,  the  husband  of  the  beautiful  Philippine, 
was  able  to  break  with  his  fingers  two  pieces  of  silver  money  of  the  size 
of  a  dollar  laid  on  top  of  each  other.  Better  known  than  the  above- 
mentioned  feats  is  the  fact  that  the  English  king  Richard  Lionheart 
received  his  name  on  account  of  his  immense  physical  strength  as  well  as 
of  the  lion-like  look  of  his  eyes  by  which  he  amazed  the  Sarazenes. 

In  a  tournament  at  Augsburg  in  the  year  1459  Maximilian  Walter, 
a  German  knight,  astonished  everybody  by  his  strength.  A  contempo- 
rary historian  says:  "Two  lansquenets  had  to  carry  this  man's  lance 
into  the  arena.  But  he  himself  carried  his  heavy  lance,  like  other 
knights,  with  one  arm  during  the  tournament. 

He  let  one  of  his  pages,  fourteen  years  of  age,  sit  on  the  outstretched 
lance  and  carried  him  across  the  courtyard  and  back  again.  The  cavity 
on  the  dart  of  his  lance  could  hold  nearly  two  quarts  of  wine. 

Louis  de  Boufleur,  called  the  Strong,  who  lived  in  the  middle  of  the 
fifteeenth  century,  jumped  in  full  armor  upon  the  back  of  his  horse  with- 
out using  his  hands  or  the  stirrup  ;  he  also  was  such  an  excellent  runner 
that  he  surpassed  the  swiftest  Spanish  horse  on  a  distance  of  200  yards. 
Leonardo  da  Vinci,  the  great  artist,  the  painter  of  "The  Last  Supper," 
broke  horseshoes  with  his  well-formed  hands  ;  so  did  the  celebrated 
actress  Gautier  who  also  withstood  the  herculean  field-marshall  Maurice 
of  Saxony  in  a  wrestling-match. 

The  strongest  men  of  modern  times  also  have  been,  respectively  are, 
blue-eyed;  for  instance,  Karl  Rappo,  an  athlete  from  Tyrol  (Austria), 
who  in  1854  threw  the  so-called  crown  consisting  of  six  connected  cannon 
balls  each  weighing  thirty  pounds,  a  most  extraordinary  feat  of  strength. 

For  a  long  time  we  have  carefully  observed  the  color  of  the  eyes  of 
famous  athletes  and  have  always  found  it  to  be  blue  ;  we  only  refer  to 
Madam  Annie  Abbott,  an  American  by  birth,  who,  although  of  a  small 
and  slender  figure,  was  able  to  lift  the  strongest  men,  but  she  herself 
could  not  be  removed  from  her  place  by  the  united  effort  of  six  men. 

It  is  also  interesting  to  observe  that  the  novelists,  in  an  instinctively 
correct  feeling,  endue  their  heroes  with  blue  eyes  ;  interesting,  further, 
is  the  fact  that  the  newspapers,  which  are  generally  not  very  exact  about 
the  truth,  always  correctly  report  about  feats  of  strength  that  they  were 
performed  by  blue-eyed  persons.  We  will  shortly  mention  here  two 
almost  superhuman  feats  of  blue-eyed  men  of  the  present  time. 

1.  Several  years  ago  a  Swiss  peasant  of  herculean  strength  came  to 
Mexico  where  he  saw  a  bull  fight  for  the  first  time  ;  he  was  struck  at 
once  with  such  an  ardent  desire  to  try  himself  as  an  amateur  bull  fighter 
that  a  bull  fight  was  arranged  in  his  honor,  and  a  prominent  Mexican 
lady  took  the  patronage  of  the  performance.  The  Swiss,  who  relied  on 
his  immense  muscular  powers,  waited  single-handed  for  the  bull  which 
rushed  through  the  opened  door  into  the  arena.  With  lightning  rapidity 
he  grasped  the  horns  of  the  assailing  bull  with  both  hands  and  threw  him 

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back  with  such  force  that  the  animal  fell  to  the  ground.  Such  a  daring 
deed  of  a  bull  fighter  had  never  been  seen  before  in  Mexico,  and  such  a 
roaring  storm  of  applause  as  followed  this  feat  had  also  never  been  heard 
there  in  an  arena.  But  as  the  must  beautiful  price  for  his  appearance  as 
a  bull  fighter  that  Swiss  won  the  heart  of  the  patron  of  the  bull  fight, 
the  beautiful  Mexican  lady.  The  Swiss  soon  afterward  married  her,  but 
has  never  tried  himself  in  bull  fights  since,  for  his  senora  would  not  allow 
that  any  more.  The  man  still  lives  in  very  comfortable  circumstances  on 
a  Hacienda  near  the  City  of  Mexico  and  likes  to  tell  everybody  of  his 
first  and  singular  appearance  as  a  bull  fighter. 

2.  The  Austrian  captain  Robert  Kaempf  von  Baldenstein  was  a 
daring  officer  who  died  at  Grosswardein  at  the  age  of  37  years.  Captain 
Kaempf  was  known  in  the  whole  army  as  a  man  who  performed  almost 
miraculous  feats.  Thus  Major-General  Graney,  on  the  occasion  of  an 
inspection  at  Grosswardein,  asked  him  for  fire  to  light  a  cigar  ;  Kaempf 
who  smoked  his  cigarette  on  the  balcony,  jumped  down  from  the  jutty 
and  offered  fire  to  the  General.  At  another  time  he  undertook  a  race 
with  the  railroad  train  running  to  Komadi,  where  he  arrived  before  the 
train.  According  to  a  bet  he  covered  the  distance  between  Grosswardein 
and  Debreczin  (40  miles)  in  3^  hours.  To  a  family  living  on  the  first 
floor  of  a  house  he  paid  a  visit  on  horseback.  From  the  railroad  bridge 
over  the  Koeroes  river  he  jumped  12  yards  deep  on  the  surface  of  the  ice, 
but  broke  both  feet  on  that  occasion.  After  his  recovery  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Bosnia  but  later  returned  to  Grosswardein,  where  he  died. 

Blue-eyed  children  are  more  vivacious,  and  in  school  they  learn  better 
and  keep  things  better  in  their  memory  than  brown-eyed  children  ;  our 
explanations  will  surely  solve  many  a  riddle  for  school  teachers,  for  in- 
structors in  gymnasiums,  and  for  teachers  of  systematic  physical  culture. 

2.    THE  INCREASING  NUMBER  OF  BROWN  EYES. 

Brown-eyed  people  are  more  sensitive,  more  nervous,  and  more  apt 
to  be  injured  by  or  to  succumb  to  unfavorable  influences  ;  they  never 
possess  the  tender  and  rosy  transparent  skin  of  blond-haired  and  blue- 
eyed  persons  ;  in  a  correct  feeling,  the  artists  have  always  painted  ideal 
figures  I  for  instance,  Mary  and  Christ)  with  blue  eyes  and  blond  hair. 

The  increase  of  brown  eyes,  corresponding  to  that  of  brown  hair, 
has  been  often  and  rightly  deplored,  but  so  far  onl>  from  the  standpoint 
Of  beauty;  such  people  never  have  the  tender,  red-translucent  skin  which 
accompanies  light-blue  eyes.  Now  we  know  that  this  increase  is  also  to 
be  deplored  for  sanitary  reasons,  and  that  the  brown  eyed  nations  of  the 
Caucasian  race  are  degenerating. 

In  addition  I  must  state,  however,  that  children  with  brown  eyes 
arc  horn  far  less  frequently  than  we  might  judge  by  the  number  of 
brown  eyed  adults,  because  their  eyes  have  turned  brown  after  birth. 

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Even  if  both  parents  are  brown-eyed,  but  otherwise  healthy,  the  new- 
born child  generally  has  greenish-blue  eyes.  Nature  takes  for  the  gene- 
ration of  new  life  always  "the  best,"  just  the  same  as  children  of 
parents  with  bad  teeth,  if  they  are  raised  according  to  the  laws  of  nature, 
will  have  sound  teeth  ;  this  relatively  "  best,"  however,  is  "  bad  enough" 
on  the  average;  45  out  of  1,000  married  women  die  of  consumption, 
between  30  and  40  years  of  age  ;  but  the  poison  of  mercury  .rages  far 
worse  among  men.  The  eyes  of  children  of  such  parents  will  always 
show  the  inclination  to  darken  more  quickly,  starting  from  the  pupil. 


3.    UNNATURAL  OR  ACQUIRED  COLORS. 

Colors  which  make  their  appearance  in  the  iris  during  the  lifetime 
of  a  man  are  called  by  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  unnatural  or  acquired 
ones  ;  such  color  signs  are  for  our  diagnosis  of  great  importance,  and  the 
most  significant  ones  are  : 

A.     The   Signs   of  the  Besmeared,  i.  e.  Suppressed  Milk  Scurf  and  of 
the  Besmeared,  i.  e.  Suppressed  Scabies. 

The  suppression  or  driving  back  of  the  milk-scurf  first  produces  a 
yellowish  coloring  round  the  pupils,  later  the  blackish  scurf-rim  on  the 
outer  edge  of  the  iris  ;  the  other  so-called  children's  (skin)  diseases,  as 
measles,  scarlet  fever,  etc. ,  are  to  be  regarded  as  subordinate  forms  of  the 
milk-scurf  ;  the  false  treatment  of  these  diseases  causes  the  same  signs  as 
mentioned  above. 

The  signs  of  scabies  are  sharply  bordered,  coarsely  marked  spots  of 
the  size  of  a  prick  of  a  pin,  enlarging  to  the  size  of  the  head  of  a  match  ; 
these  spots  darken  in  time,  so  that  we  can  fairly  diagnose  from  their  color 
at  what  age  the  disease  and  its  false  treatment  had  occurred. 

In  the  Munich  Fliegende  Blacttcr  was  once  a  drawing  of  overwhelm- 
ing comic.  A  mother  had  prepared  a  dough  for  cakes  which  she  put  on 
the  table  to  let  them  rise,  and  then  left  the  kitchen.  In  the  meantime 
the  children,  who  should  take  charge  of  the  kitchen,  zealously  and  vigor- 
ously knocked  down  every  cake  wdiich  was  going  to  rise.  What  became 
of  the  cakes  every  one  can  imagine. 

The  followers  of  the  method  of  natural  healing  must  involuntarily 
compare  the  actions  of  those  foolish  children  with  that  what  the  allo- 
pathic pseudo-science  undertakes  against  the  efforts  of  the  system  to  ex- 
pell  impurities.  The  body  is  impeded  by  all  means  in  its  endeavor  to 
cast  out  inherited  or  acquired  disease-matter  which  appears  as  skin  dis- 
eases, sweating  or  open  feet,  ulcers,  etc.  Such  suppression  is  always 
accompanied  by  the  worst  consequences,  although  they  do  not  appear  at 
once  or  are  seemingly  not  in  connection  with  the  original  disease.  Most 
fatally  is  the  inward-smearing  or  suppression  of  the  milk-scurfs  the  well- 

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known  and  much-varied  infantile  disease,  and  of  the  scabies.  I  cannot 
agree  with  the  interpretation  of  Peczely  and  Liljequist,  that  scabies  is  a  c<  >n- 
tagious  disease  occasioned  by  a  small  insect  (acarus  scabiei  ),  and  I  am  sur- 
prised that  these  meritorious  investigators  share  this  really  allopathic  view. 

For  us  who  judge  by  the  laws  of  rational  logic,  this  insect  is  only  a 
secondary  appearance  ;  it  is  only  the  companion,  and  not  the  cause,  of  an 
especially  sharp  skin-disease,  just  the  same  as  baccilli  and  microbes  do 
not  really  cause,  but  only  accompany  diseases.  We  also  find  a  similar 
insect  {acarus  folliculorum)  in  the  pimples  of  the  face,  an  appearance 
which  nobody  will  call  an  infectious  disease.  I  had  the  opportunity  to 
observe  how  persons  of  my  environment,  in  the  course  of  a  water  cure, 
were  afflicted  with  scabies,  as  a  form  of  a  so-called  crisis,  while  infection 
was  absolutely  excluded  ;  in  similar  cases  persons  suddenly  got  head-lice 
i  pediculosis  capitis')  as  a  crisis,  by  which  term  is  meant  an  acute  or  vio- 
lent elimination  of  morbid  matter.  Here  also  the  old  saying  is  right  : 
"  Don't  drive  away  the  lice,  a  sickness  comes  out  with  them  !  " 

I  found  that  individuals  who  by  smearing  suppressed  that  skin  dis- 
ease which  is  accompanied  by  crab-lice  (pediculosis  pubis')  show  a  red- 
brown  coloring  in  the  form  of  spots  in  the  corresponding  part  of  the  rim 
of  the  iris. 

About  the  discovery  and  significance  of  the  signs  of  scabies  we  may 
mention  the  following  : 

Peczely  had  observed  for  a  long  time  that  many  of  his  patients  had 
sharply  drawn  brown  spots  in  the  iris  :  but  strangely,  they  could  not 
remember  of  having  been  diseased  on  those  parts  of  the  body  which  were 
corresponding  with  the  position  of  the  spots.  But  one  day  a  peasant 
called  on  him  who  had  many  such  spots  in  his  eyes  ;  he  told  that  he  had 
been  very  much  afflicted  with  scabies.  Peczely  requested  at  once  all  those 
present  who  had  also  suffered  from  this  disease  to  step  forward.  And 
there  were  not  few  of  them  !  Peczely  examined  one  after  the  other  and 
noticed  in  all  their  irises  the  same  brown  spots.  One  of  them  had  even 
three  spots  in  different  colorings  one  above  the  other,  and  he  said  he  had 
had  the  scabies  three  times.  Thus  this  discovery  was  made.  The  mite 
s  scabiei  ),  as  we  have  already  shown,  is  only  a  secondary  appear- 
ance, accompanying  the  elimination  of  morbid  matter  on  the  surface  of 
the  body.  If  we  rationally  assist  nature  in  bringing  this  probably  in- 
herited and  very  virulent  poison  outward  to  the  skin,  the  body  will  re- 
move a  good  deal  of  it  ;  and  if  we  strictly  avoid  to  suppress  this  natural 
healing  action,  the  system  will  be  -really  relieved,  and  good  health  will 
follow  ;  the  eyes  will  not  only  show  no  signs  of  scabies,  but  the  color  of 
the  iris  will  turn  nearer  to  light-blue,— the  best  proof,  as  we  know,  of  an 
improved  bodily  condition.  The  change  of  color  which  in  such  cases 
takes  place  inside  of  a  few  davs,  is  very  striking. 

In  the  opposite  way  by  the  allopathic  treatment,  viz.,  tar,  sulphur, 

mercury   salves,    soaps,    and   ointments,  the   poisonous   matter    is    thrown 

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back  into  the  system  and  always  settles  in  the  weakest  parts  of  the  body, 
which  we  recognize  in  the  iris  by  sharply  bordered  red  spots,  varying  to 
dark-brown  and  getting  darker  in  the  course  of  years. 

B.     Medicine  Colors. 

Two  generations  ago  the  great  hydropathist  Francke  (Rausse)  main- 
tained that  drug  poisons  are  not  assimilated  by  the  system,  but  as  "  for- 
eign matter"  are  enveloped  with  mucus  (secreted  by  the  membranes) 
and  deposited  in  the  various  parts  of  the  body.  Thus  kind  ' '  Mother 
Nature,"  always  looking  out  for  our  best,  in  spite  of  our  perversities, 
makes  those  poisons  innocuous  as  far  as  possible,  at  least  for  the  time 
being.  The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  proves  irrefutably  and  distinctly  the 
truth  of  this  assertion  and  shows  how  terribly  the  present  generation  is 
being  maltreated  by  poisonous  drugs  and  medicines.  The  great  Goethe 
very  pointedly  criticizes  the  injurious  practice  of  allopathy  in  his  immor- 
tal ' '  Faust ' ' : 

"  With  dreadful  potions,  knife,  and  pills 
Among  these  peaceful  vales  and  hills 
We  raged  more  fiercely  than  the  pest. 
Myself  the  deadly  poison  did  to  thousands  give, 
They  died  away,  I  yet  must  live 
To  hear  the  reckless  murderers  blest !  " 

These  words  hold  as  true  to-day  as  they  did  a  hundred  years  ago, 
and  for  the  few  who  survive  on  account  of  their  resistive  nature  it  will  be 
a  tedious  task  to  rid  themselves  again  of  the  drug-poisons,  which  always 
requires  much  patience  and  the  perseverance  of  an  unwavering  charac-  -\ 
ter  ;  we  can  certainly  sooth  the  severest  pain  by  the  natural  method  of 
healing  and  help  the  body  in  eliminating  the  foreign  or  morbid  matter; 
but  if  the  system  is  continually  poisoned  by  various  medicines,  years  will 
pass  under  the  most  favorable  conditions  before  it  can  perfectly  free  itself 
from  the  encumbrance  of  the  slowly  but  surely  wasting  virus.  This 
casting  out  of  morbid  or  foreign  matter,  which  is  accompanied  by  a  vehe- 
ment crisis  at  certain  intervals,  is  falsely  called  "  disease,"  while  it  really 
is  the  action  of  vital  force  which  defends  and  restores,  but  which  allo- 
pathy, guided  by  its  mediaeval  traditions,  always  tries  to  suppress. 

Mercury  takes  the  first  place  in  the  long  list  of  allopathic  remedies, 
by  its  frequent  application  as  well  as  by  its  pernicious  effect.  It  is  used 
internally  and  externally,  as  an  ointment  for  ulcers  and  wounds.  If  this 
poison  has  been  introduced  and  deposited  in  the  body  in  great  quantities, 
there  appears  near  the  outer  edge  of  the  iris  of  the  blue  eye  a  greyish-white 
ring  of  a  metallic  shine,  which  looks  somewhat  blue  in  the  brown  eye. 
Taken  in  smaller  quantities,  the  drug  produces  these  signs  only  in  the 
upper  part  of  the  iris,  because  it  is  drawn  first  to  the  mucous  membranes 
of  the  brain  and  then  to  those  of  the  respiratory  system;  during  this  time 
the  poison  produces  whitish-grey  clouds.     The  organs  which  are  charged 

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with  mercury  arc  like  dead,  cold  ;  they  are  the  seat  of  boring  pains  which 
suddenly  appear  and  pass  away.  Much  that  is  called  "  rheumatism  "  is 
really  mercury-poisoning.  Even  allopathy  admits  that  of  100  persons  who 
suffer  from  tumors  of  the  brain  95  are  proven  to  be  poisoned  by  mercury; 
that  it  does  not  properly  cure  in  sexual  diseases,  where  it  is  used  as  a  spe- 
cific and  supposedly  best  adapted  remedy.  Nevertheless,  allopaths  con- 
tinue their  dangerous  practices,  undisturbed  by  the  deplorable  figures  of 
those  who  in  consequence  of  the  mercury  poison  suffer  from  paralysis, 
nephritis,  and  similar  painful  diseases. 

Mercury  is  eliminated  from  the  body  by  smaller  or  larger  carbuncles, 
blackish  coverings  which  but  slowly  separate  from  the  skin,  or  wart-like 
fistulas  and  mucous  patches  in  the  mouth  or  nose. 

Quinine  as  an  antipyretic  is  well  known,  but  not  its  pernicious  effect. 
It  gives  to  the  eye  a  distinct  yellow  color  which,  if  the  drug  was  taken 
only  in  small  quantities,  appears  only  in  those  parts  of  the  iris  corre- 
sponding to  the  bowels  ;  but  if  the  whole  body  is  saturated  with  the  poi- 
son, the  yellow  in  the  iris  becomes  predominant,  the  blue  eye  takes  a 
greenish  color,  while  the  brown  eye  becomes  somewhat  more  fallow. 

Liljequist  very  pointedly  writes  about  the  effects  of  quinine:  "Nobody 
knows  the  consequences  of  chronic  quinine  poisoning  better  than  I,  a 
circumstance,  however,  which  does  not  delight  me.  Heaviness  and  dull- 
ness above  the  eyes,  ringing  in  the  ears,  are  the  daily  symptoms  from  this 
dreadful  drug.  For  fifteen  years  I  have  used  homeopathic  medicines, 
and  still  I  am  not  rid  of  the  poison.  The  headaches  are  more  seldom, 
the  color  of  the  eye  is  somewhat  lighter,  but  that  is  all.  That  shows  that 
all  medicine  poisonings  are  almost  incurable. 

"Having  mentioned  the  symptoms  of  chronic  quinine  poisoning,  I 
shall  add  a  few  words  about  those  of  the  acute  stages,  especially  about 
the  psychic  symptoms  which  will  always  follow.  As  bodily  symptoms  I 
felt  a  boiling  and  tinkling  in  my  head,  and  occasionally  complete  deaf- 
ness set  in.  But  that  is  nothing  compared  with  the  terrible  effects  which 
the  drug  has  upon  the  mind. 

"  The  last  time  I  took  quinine  was  in  the  year  1881.  While  I  was 
suffering  from  the  painful  consequences  of  this  folly,  the  news  arrived 
of  the  assassination  of  Czar  Alexander  of  Russia,  and  I  feel  ashamed  to 
confess  that  I  myself,  being  naturally  tender-hearted  and  humane,  was 
jubilant,  and  even  wished  to  possess  the  power  to  destroy  the  whole 
world.  The  desire  to  waste,  to  destroy,  to  extirpate,  are  the  psychic 
symptoms  of  acute  quinine  poisoning.  With  me  such  thoughts  never 
came  into  action,  but  I  have  seen  it  in  the  case-  of  travelers  in  Africa  who 
are  not  restricted  by  laws.  The  Europeans,  in  a  wild  rage,  attack  the 
negroes,  horsewhipping  and  even  killing  them.  Men  who  are  humane  at 
home  are  brutal  in  Africa.     The  enervating  African  climate  and  the  stub- 

borness  of  the  negroes  were  accounted  for  these  horrors,  but  wrongly,  for 

I  know  it  better  ;    the  real  cause  is  the  universal  use  of  quinine  which  the 

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Europeans  think  necessary  in  tropical  countries.  Here  I  have  a  news- 
paper article  of  several  columns,  written  by  Karl  Petersons,  a  vSwedish 
Africa  explorer,  about  Dr.  Peters.  In  that  article  he  tells  us  about  the 
nervousness  of  those  travelers,  which  he  tries  to  explain  as  follows : 
'  Everything  is  tending  to  completely  destroy  the  nervous  system  of  these 
poor  pioneers.  Whoever  has  been  sojourning  for  several  years  in  the  un- 
healthy climate  of  the  tropics,  especially  East  Africa,  finally  becomes 
nervous  to  a  degree  which  is  hardly  conceivable  in  our  northern  climate. 
Everything  is  irritating,  troubling,  and  molesting  him.  Trifles  which 
had  hardly  annoyed  him  at  home,  make  him  almost  insane  with  rage 
under  the  equatorial  sun  and  instigate  him  to  harsh  and  cruel  deeds 
which  under  normal  conditions  he  would  condemn  most  severely.  He 
regrets  his  behavior  afterward,  but  what  of  that?  The  next  time  this 
intolerable  condition  of  extreme  nervousness  returns  (i.  e.  after  the  next 
dosis  of  quinine),  he  can  restrain  his  rage  as  little  as  the  first  time.  A 
man  who  under  normal  conditions,  i.  e.  in  his  native  country,  is  good  and 
considerate,  is  liable  to  act  in  the  tropics  in  the  most  cruel  and  brutal 
manner.  It  is  but  natural  that  the  lazy,  stupid,  unreliable  negro,  with- 
out whom  the  European  can  hardly  get  along,  gives  his  patience  the  most 
severe  test ;  but  the  native  must  also  bear  the  consequences  in  ninety- 
nine  out  of  a  hundred  cases  when  "the  great  master,"  as  he  calls  the 
former,  is  in  an  angry  mood.  I  therefore  venture  to  say  that  the  Euro- 
pean is  not  in  the  same  degree  responsible  for  his  actions  in  the  tropics  as 
at  home,  and  that  it  is  impossible  for  those  who  have  never  been  there  to 
judge  to  what  degree  he  is  influenced  by  the  fatal  drug  and  the  excessive 
heat.  For  that  reason  I  deplore  Peters  who  now  had  to  defend  his  actions 
before  the  German  Parliament.  If  he  is  sentenced,  he  will  be  sacrificed 
to  satisfy  the  law;  but  I  myself  would  be  much  more  satisfied  if  Germany 
would  give  up  her  colonies  in  Africa  where  she  cannot  reap  any  honors 
and  where  she  w7ill  probably  never  acquire  any  riches.' — The  latter,  of 
course,  was  the  principal  point!  But  my  opinion  is,  that  Germany  should 
not  abandon  her  colonies  in  Africa,  but  should  recommend  to  her  people 
the  following  measures  :  ( 1 )  to  live  mostly  of  fruits  like  the  natives  ;  ( 2 ) 
to  dress  like  the  natives,  i.  e.  to  wear  as  little  clothing  as  possible;  (3)  to 
fear  the  use  of  quinine  like  the  plague,  and  in  case  of  fever  to  employ 
homeopathic  remedies  and  water.  If  these  precepts  are  followed,  life  in 
Africa  will  be  tolerable.  The  same  advice  I  wish  to  give  to  the  mission- 
aries. The  other  day  I  became  angry  when  our  missionaries  in  India 
went  a-begging  for  Liebig's  beef  extract  and  preserved  meats.  They 
ought  to  live  like  the  natives,  clothe  themselves  rationally,  and  avoid  all 
allopathic  medicines.  Then  they  will  be  spared  with  the  frequent  calam- 
ity that  many  of  their  brethren  either  die  or  ask  for  furlough  on  account 
of  sickness,  just  at  the  time  when  they  should  become  useful  and  com- 
petent." 

The  best  medicine  in  all  climates  is  a  natural  mode  of  living. 

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The  other  well-known  fever  remedies  Antifebrin  and  Antipyrin 

show  similar  signs  as  quinine,  only  of  a  somewhat  lighter  color. 

The  elimination  of  these  three  poisons  is  accompanied  by  vehement 
exudations  which  are  preceded  by  nervous  restlessness,  vivacity,  etc. 

IODINE  causes  red  and  yellowish-red  spots,  mostly  in  tho.se  parts  of 
the  iris  corresponding  to  stomach,  kidneys,  and  brain  ;  the  spots  are  sim- 
ilar in  color  to  those  of  the  scabies,  with  the  exception  that  the  latter  are 
sharply  bounded,  while  the  former  gradually  change  into  the  surrounding 
fields  of  the  iris.  Below  the  iodine  spots  there  are  in  a  most  significant 
manner  the  white  clouds  of  a  latent  inflammation.  These  signs  which 
give  the  spots  a  somewhat  softer  color  are  missing  at  the  marks  of  scabies. 

The  eliminations  of  iodine  which  take  place  through  the  skin  are 
similar  to  all  kinds  of  skin  diseases,  beginning  from  nettle  rash  up  to  a 
stubborn  erysipelas. 

Arsenic  is  used  by  allopathy  especially  against  skin  diseases.  It 
causes  signs  similar  to  snowflakes  in  the  outer  part  of  the  iris,  in  those 
parts  corresponding  to  the  limbs,  the  brain,  and  the  back  ;  it  effects  burn- 
ing in  the  limbs,  sometimes  increasing  to  their  complete  lameness  ;  fur- 
thermore, irritation  of  the  lacrimal  glands  and  the  sensation  of  a  cold 
drizzling  over  the  back  and  of  pain  in  the  hair  and  scalp. 

It  is  eliminated  through  small  boils,  running  open  sores,  and  dan- 
druff. 

Phosphorus  effects,  like  arsenic,  whitish-grey  clouds  in  the  parts  of 
the  iris  corresponding  to  the  stomach,  bowels,  head,  and  limbs. 

It  is  eliminated  through  often  very  deep-reaching  ulcers. 

STRYCHNINE  causes  white  to  yellowish-white  lines  around  the  sign 
of  the  stomach  ;  the  consequences  of  strychnine  poisoning  are  tension  in 
the  chest,  pains  in  the  stomach  and  belching.  Its  elimination  is  accom- 
panied by  pain  in  the  back  and  by  conditions  similar  to  those  of  cholera, 
— cold  perspiration  upon  forehead  and  chest,  and  vomiting  of  blood  and 
bitter  mucus. 

LEAD  gives  the  region  of  the  stomach  in  the  iris  a  lead-grey  color. 
Beer  drinkers  show  this  sign,  as  the  beer  is  dissolving  lead  out  of  the 
glass  and  thus  brings  it  into  the  stomach.  It  is  eliminated  under  a  vehe- 
ment stomach-ache,  known  as  lead  colic. 

Salicylic  Acid  effects  a  dirty-grey  cover  of  the  iris,  generally  be- 
ginning to  -row  in  the  upper  part,  while  the  lower  part  of  the  iris  fre- 
quently shows  still  a  comparatively  good  color.      Its  elimination  is  accom 
panied  by  pain  in  tin-  muscles  and  observed  by  a  chalk-like  covering  of 
the  skin  and  inflammation  of  the  mucous  membranes,  especially  of  the 

head. 

Similar  are  the  effects  of  Creosote;  but  here  is  the  covering  finer 
and  -rows  from  the  part  corresponding  to  the  stomach  to  the  rim  of  the 

iris,      n  is  eliminated  by  the  lungs  under  a  painful  cough   and   by  gastric 
and  intestinal  catarrh. 


TURPENTINE  produces  rather  dense  grey  clouds  mostly  in  the  part 
corresponding  to  the  kidneys,  in  the  direction  of  the  rim  of  the  iris.  It 
is  eliminated  partly  under  the  well-known  appearances  of  catarrh  of  the 
bladder,  partly  by  eczema. 

Glycerine  (the  sweetish  principal  of  oils)  has  the  peculiar  property 
to  dissolve  easily  in  water  ;  it  is  therefore  used  by  allopathy  for  various 
purposes,  for  instance,  for  the  preservation  of  the  skin,  or  to  produce  a 
more  corpulent  appearance  of  the  body,  etc.  It  is  not  as  harmless  as  is 
generally  believed.  It  gradually  permeates  all  tissues  to  the  point  of 
saturation,  because  it  readily  mixes  with  water.  It  is  then  eliminated  as 
an  itching  lichen  or  fatty  and  shining  covering  of  the  skin.  It  produces 
large  white  clouds  in  the  periphery  of  the  iris,  in  the  parts  corresponding 
to  the  skin,  kidneys,  and  lungs.  If  it  was  taken  in  large  quantities  it  is 
liable  to  efface  the  border  between  iris  and  cornea,  just  the  same  as  sali- 
cylic acid. 

Opium,  Cocain,  and  Hashish,  the  well-known  stimulants  and  nar- 
cotics, appear  as  a  whitish-grey  ring  around  the  pupil. 

Potassium  Bromate  makes  a  white  crescent  in  the  upper  half  of  the 
iris  (part  corresponding  to  the  head);  it  is  eliminated  by  a  skin  disease 
called  brom-acne. 

Other  poisons  which  allopathy  presents  as  "  remedies  "  to  credulous 
humanity  also  affect  the  color  of  the  iris  which  unfailingly  discloses  the 
dangerous  practices  of  the  old  school  in  its  useless  attempts  to  cure  disease. 

C.     Signs  of  Vaccinations. 

Vaccination  against  smallpox  is  well  known  to  all  readers  and  unfor- 
tunately by  their  own  experience,  since  this  allopathic  act  for  the  salva- 
tion of  mankind  is  enforced  in  most  countries,  even  in  our  enlightened 
America,  "  the  land  of  the  free." 

Nothing  but  false  evidence  speaks  for  vaccination,  against  it  divine 
and  human  rights.  Man,  the  crown  of  creation,  is  certainly  the  most 
perfect  of  beings,  and  we  prefer  "the  order  of  nature"  to  "the  wit  of 
man." 

The  unvaccinated  are  said  to  be  a  danger  to  the  vaccinated,  but 
where  remains  the  logical  conclusion  ?  If  the  vaccinated  are  really  pro- 
tected, the  unvaccinated  may  suffer  the  penalty  of  smallpox.  If  I  am 
protected  by  a  coat  of  mail,  I  don't  need  to  forbid  anybody  to  shoot  at  me. 
It  may  be  asserted  that  since  the  beginning  of  vaccination  smallpox  has 
decreased,  but  this  is  not  the  merit  of  vaccination.  With  the  beginning  of 
the  nineteenth  century  people  generally  commenced  to  look  out  for  better 
sanitary  conditions  ;  before  that  time  the  swill  and  refuse  was  thrown 
into  narrow  streets  and  yards,  while  sewers  and  drainage  canals  were 
almost'  unknown.  On  the  other  hand,  epidemics — we  mention  only  the 
plague,  or  the  youngest  epidemic,  influenza — often  suddenly  ceased  with- 

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out  the  doubtful  help  of  vaccination.  The  reason  for  these  appearances 
are  influences  which  escape  our  perception,  for  instance,  the  change  of 
the  electric  and  magnetic  conditions  of  the  air  effected  by  the  changing 
constellation  of  our  planet  to  the  other  stars  of  our  planetary  system. 

If,  for  instance,  at  a  certain  place  influenza  were  just  disappearing 
and  if  at  that  time  a  remedy  against  the  disease  came  into  the  market, 
— would  not  all  those  who  took  the  medicine  swear  that  it  had  helped 
them  ?  Moreover,  smallpox  has  not  been  extinguished  by  vaccination, 
and  the  disease  still  exists,  especially  in  those  countries  where  vaccina- 
tion is  practiced  to  the  utmost  extent,  and,  strange  to  say,  afflicts  mostly 
the  vaccinated  ;  and  still  stranger,  the  most  deaths  also  occur  among 
the  vaccinated  ! — Thirty  years  ago  the  vaccination  of  sheep  was  intro- 
duced, and  in  consequence  the  ability  of  the  mother  sheep  to  nurse  their 
young  ones  diminished  to  such  a  degree  that  vaccination  of  the  sheep  had 
to  be  prohibited.  The  inability  of  our  modern  mothers  to  nurse  their 
children  is  often  to  be  attributed  to  the  same  cause. 

Allopathy  refers  to  the  results  of  statistics,  whereupon  we  briefly 
reply  that  these  figures,  the  same  as  those  in  the  case  of  injection  of  diph- 
thero toxin  and  of  pasteurism  against  hydrophobia,  are  proved  to  be  arti- 
ficially prepared  and  amended, — not  to  say  falsified.  In  compiling  the 
results  the  motto  ruled  :   "  The  end  justifies  the  means." 

What  we  said  about  vaccination  against  smallpox  refers  in  the  same 
manner  to  other  kinds  of  vaccination,  some  of  which,  for  instance  that 
against  syphilis,  soon  went  into  oblivion. 

The  opponents  of  vaccination  are  reproached  with  the  assertion  that 
they  exaggerate  its  injurious  influence.  In  regard  to  the  question  of  the 
"injurious  influence"  we  wish  to  let  common  sense  and  the  experience 
of  a  wholly  impartial  man  speak. 

Captain  Bonavita,  the  greatest  lion  tamer  of  the  century  (with  Bos- 
tock's  show),  is  a  man  whose  wonderful  mental  nerve  and  physical  power 
is  best  described  by  the  fact  that  he  works  with  twenty-seven  full-grown 
male  lions.  A  very  imposing  sight  is  the  ending  of  one  of  his  acts  where 
he  backs  from  the  arena  through  the  large,  broad  iron  doors,  carrying  on 
his  neck  and  shoulders  a  lion  weighing  nearly  500  pounds.  Brown  bread, 
rye,  corn,  and  whole  wheat  are  what  he  nourishes  his  system  with.  "  I 
am  not  much  on  meats,"  he  says,  "  I  like  vegetables  and  nature's  food 
much  better,  and  you  can  hardly  realize  how  much  better  I  feel  since  I 
adopted  this  plan."  When  asked  whether  he  was  ever  sick,  he  replied  : 
"  Only  when  I  was  vaccinated.  This  happened  when  I  was  nine  years 
did  and  again  at  thirty-six  years  of  age,  but  under  protest,  I  assure.  I 
got  SO  sick  and  weak  that  I  could  hardly  do  my  work,  and  I  could  only 
dress  myself  one  piece  at  a  time  with  intervening  rests.  I  would  not  be 
vaccinated  again  if  Bostock  should  offer  me  his  whole  menagerie." 

'Hie  man  who  received  fifty  heavy  wounds  in  his  vocation  which  he 
healed  all  himself  b\  water  ;    he  who  knows  no  fear  with  his  twenty-seven 

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full-grown  lions,  fears  vaccination  on  account  of  his  own  sorrowful  expe- 
rience ! 

Yet  in  spite  of  these  facts,  the  "  free  "  American  citizens  tamely  sub- 
mit to  the  nefarious  institution  of  vaccination  which  is  upheld  by  a  few 
allopathic  doctors  who  organize  a  so-called  Board  of  Health  and  get  laws 
passed  to  give  them  arbitrary  powers  by  which  they  can  cripple  and  kill 
our  little  ones. 

The  following  letter  to  the  editor  of  Medical  Talk  ought  to  touch  the 
heart  of  every  conscientious  father  and  stir  the  indignation  of  every 
liberty-loving  citizen. 

Mansfield.  Ohio,  Sept.  25,  1903j 

Dear  Dr.  Carr: — Your  letter  and  Medical  Talk  received,  and  I 
thank  you.  God  bless  your  efforts  to  stamp  out  the  legal  murder  of  our 
children.  No  vaccination  here  now,  and  if  I  can  help  it  there  never  will 
be  again.  Enclosed  you  will  find  a  photo  of  my  only  son  who  never  saw 
a  sick  day  till  this  barbarian  vaccination  law  murdered  him.  His  little 
sister,  vaccinated  the  same  day,  is  now  in  your  city  for  treatment.  I 
wish  our  schools  would  educate  our  children  and  stop  poisoning  them 
with  virus  taken  by  fools  from  steers.  (Rev.)  S.  P.  L,ong. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  shows  the  consequences  of  vaccination  in 
a  darkening  of  the  color  of  the  iris,  as  a  sign  of  a  general  deteriorating  of 
lymph  and  blood  ;  the  darkening  begins  round  the  pupil,  as  a  proof  that 
the  digestive  apparatus  (respectively  its  mucous  membranes)  has  been 
unfavorably  influenced  ;  as  another  bad  result  sometimes  appears  tuber- 
culosis. 

The  body  of  the  child  tries  to  eliminate  the  poison  as  diphtheria.  It 
is  a  well-known  fact  that  only  vaccinated  children  get  diphtheria,  and 
that  the  disease  is  spreading  with  vaccination  against  smallpox.  To  ex- 
change diphtheria  for  smallpox  is  certainly  not  wise  ;  for  it  is  self-evident 
that  it  is  easier  for  the  system  to  eliminate  morbid  matter  if  the  latter  is 
distributed  all  over  the  body  where  it  has  a  large  surface  for  its  elimination, 
as  in  the  case  of  smallpox, — than  if  a  small  and  moreover  so  very  delicate 
part  as  the  larynx  is  used  for  that  purpose.  It  would  take  up  too  much 
space  to  fully  expose  the  allopathic  and  "  now  modern"  remedy  against 
diphtheria,  Behring's  "Antitoxin";  it  caused,  like  the  other  rank 
poisons,  immense  injury  and  suffering.  After  the  inglorious  end  of 
tuberculin — the  public  had  been  made  somewhat  suspicious  by  this  evi- 
dent failure,  however  —  antitoxin  could  only  be  introduced  because 
capitalism  and  allopathy  united  for  the  predatory  excursion  ;  the  case 
"  Langerhans  "*)    alone  should  have  been  sufficient   to  do   away   with 


*)  The  case  Langerhans :  "  Yesterday  afternoon  at  6  o'clock  our  most  beloved  first-born,  1  %  years  of 
age  and  in  the  best  of  health,  died  suddenly  in  consequence  of  a  subcutaneous  injection  of  Behring's 
antitoxin  used  for  immunization.  Your  still  sympathy  is  requested  by  Professor  Dr.  med.  Robert 
Langerhans,  and  wife  Anna,  nee  Gerhard,  Kronprinzenufer  29,  Berlin,  April  8,  1896." 

This  is  the  exact  translation  of  an  announcement  in  the  morning  edition  of  the  "  Vossische  Zeitung" 
of  April  9,  1896. 

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antitoxin  forever.  It  affects  the  iris  by  forming  dark  spots  and  white 
clouds,  the  signs  of  functionary  derangements,  mostly  in  the  part  of  the 
iris  corresponding  to  the  back  and  kidneys. 

The  discovery  of  Tuberculin  put  the  allopaths  almost  into  a  state 
of  rapture  ;  now,  they  believed,  the  destroying  demon  of  humanity  could 
be  combatted  effectively.  But  right  here  they  clearly  showed  that  they 
are  powerless  against  the  disease,  even  in  its  beginning,  and  that,  by 
looking  for  remedies,  they  forget  the  plainest  facts.  The  real  causes  of 
the  origin  of  diseases  have  always  been  unknown  to  them.  Disease,  we 
said,  is  a  process,  not  a  condition,  and  incurable  diseases  do  not  come 
over  night,  nor  can  they  be  cured  by  specific  remedies.  Just  like  a  river 
is  resulting  from  a  confluence  of  wells,  creeks,  and  small  streams,  so 
"  incurable  diseases  " — as  they  are  called  by  allopathy — arise  from  the  co- 
operation of  various  influences.  Moreover  we  know  that  many  causes 
which  are  created  by  our  civilization  are  contributing  to  the  origin  and 
propagation  of  a  large  number  of  so-called  diseases.  By  the  wearing  of 
unnecessary  clothes  and  the  omission  of  cold  baths  the  proper  perspiration 
of  the  body  is  impeded,  and  the  lungs,  by  assuming  the  work  of  the  skin, 
are  overworked.  The  sojourn  in  ill  ventilated  rooms,  the  use  of  meat, 
alcohol,  and  various  other  unnatural  habits  are  encumbering  the  body  with 
morbid  matter,  sometimes  to  such  a  degree  that  our  organs  of  elimination 
get  entirely  exhausted,  causing  the  most  fatal  diseases  and  even  death. 
The  sudden  death  of  Emil  Zola,  the  celebrated  French  author,  has  been 
directly  caused  by  the  foul  air  of  an  overheated  and  tightly  shut-up  room, 
a  case  which  shows  that  the  most  learned  men  are  often  too  careless  and 
ignorant  about  the  fundamental  laws  of  hygiene. 

The  incompetency  of  allopathy  is  admitted  by  Professor  Gerhardt 
of  Berlin,  a  prominent  representative  of  the  allopathic  system,  by  the 
following  distinct  words  :  "  The  allopathic  treatment  of  chronic  tubercu- 
losis of  the  lungs  is  entirely  bankrupt.  From  the  standpoint  of  allopathy 
we  are  confronted  by  the  naught." 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  recognizes  the  pernicious  influence  of 
tuberculin  by  the  circumstance  that  it  rapidly  darkens  the  color  of  the 
iris. 

Of  a  somewhat  longer  duration  than  tuberculin  was  "  PASTEURISM  " 
against  hydrophobia,  a  disease  of  which  the  public  has  a  most  confusing 
ideas.  With  this  kind  of  vaccination  also  allopathy  refers  to  statistics, — 
so  and  so  many  had  been  successfully  vaccinated,  the  papers  say,  but 
nobody  knows  where  the  success  comes  in ;  but  the  fact  that  almost  all 
of  the  vaccinated  were  afflicted  with  hydrophobia  or  the  most  severest 
nervous  diseases  later  on,  is  never  mentioned  except  in  the  most  flagrant 
cases;  but  these  are  soon  forgotten,  and  the  "  rabid  vaccination "  goes 
on.  As  far  as  my  observations  go,  pasteurism  is  diagnosed  by  ring- 
like white  clouds  in  the  iris,  similar  to  those  caused  by  cramps.  Many 
persons  who  were  bitten  by  healthy  dogs  believed  to  be  cautious  in  pro- 
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tecting  themselves  by  pasteurism,  but  just  these  succumbed  to  hydro- 
phobia. We  can  never  expect  anything  good  of  remedies  whose  pro- 
duction depends  on  the  most  cruel  treatment  of  animals. 

D.     Signs  of  Glandular  Extracts. 

Allopathy  is  constantly  on  the  lookout  for  new  remedies,  a  circum- 
stance which  clearly  demonstrates  that'  the  old  healing  arts  are  of  no 
value,  and  that  their  practitioners  are  still  groping  in  the  dark.  This 
seeking  for  something  new,  however,  could  be  called  praiseworthy,  for 
"  to  know  is  to  know  that  we  know  nothing,"  and  the  knowledge  of  one- 
self is  always  valuable.  But  this  is  not  the  way  allopaths  interpret  the 
saying  of  the  ancient  sages,  otherwise  they  would  begin  to  realize  that 
they  are  working  altogether  in  the  wrong  direction,  that  they  have  devi- 
ated from  the  course  which  nature  has  mapped  out  for  man,  and  that  our 
only  salvation  is  to  wander  her  simple  paths  which  are  open  to  all.  But 
allopathy,  that  pseudo-science,  in  its  constant  desire  to  render  friendly 
services  to  capitalism,  again  and  again  tries  to  deceive  nature.  Such 
tactics  may  succed  with  the  ignorant  and  credulous,  but  Nature  in  her 
inexorable  laws  can  never  be  outwitted  by  the  puny  plots  of  man,  and 
fortunately  so;  otherwise  humanity  would  have  vanished  from  this  planet 
long  ago.  Nature  can  never  be  mastered  by  man,  she  will  still  go  on  to 
build  her  wonderful  works  in  unabating  grandeur  when  the  feeble  crea- 
tions of  human  hand  will  have  crumbled  into  dust  or  sunk  into  oblivion's 
sea. 

The  "  modern  "  physician  does  not  work  any  more  exclusively  with 
metal  or  vegetable  poisons  ;  the  motto  in  the  therapeutics  of  to-day  is  and 
will  be  for  some  time  to  come,  until  something  else  shows  up,  "  glandular 
extracts,"  i.  e.  the  extract  of  certain  parts  of  animals  used  for  therapeu- 
tic purposes.  Is  this  not  the  climax  of  perversity  :  ' '  We  must  kill  to 
cure!"  Does  not  that  alone  show  the  entire  bankruptcy  of  allopathy, 
and  does  it  not  almost  border  upon  insanity  that  man,  the  crown  of  the 
universe,  must  torture  dumb  and  helpless  animals  to  cure  disease  which 
is  only  the  result  of  his  own  ignorance  and  violation  of  the  laws  of 
nature  ? 

Kindness  is  a  universal  language,  understood  even  by  the  dumb  ani- 
mals. Cruelty  to  animals  is  always  the  sign  of  a  little  and  debased  mind, 
In  the  treatment  of  the  weaker  and  the  inferior  lies  indeed  the  true  test 
of  nobility  of  character.  Mankind  has  not  yet  recognized  our  right  rela- 
tionship to  the  animal  world. 

Vast  numbers  of  animals  have  been  immolated  to  the  folly  of  vivi- 
section, and  instead  of  resulting  in  important  discoveries,  the  sacrifice  has 
been  absolutely  useless.  Discoveries  made  by  these  means  and  heralded 
as  a  permanent  benefaction  and  blessing  to  the  race,  have  after  a  brief 
trial  been  denounced  and  prohibited.  Many  medical  men  indeed  have 
confessed  that  vivisection,  far  from  benefiting  science,  is  both  detrimental 

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and  misleading.  Meanwhile  there  are  thousands  of  animals  tortured  by 
students  in  our  hospitals  under  the  pretense  of  discovering  new  truths, 
but  in  fact  only  to  gratify  their  own  cruel  curiosity,  which  can  never 
help  the  progress  of  true  science. 

In  a  circular  issued  by  a  capitalistic  concern  which  exploits  the 
manufacture  of  glandular  extracts  commercially,  we  find  the  following 
sentence  :  "In  acute  insanities,  which  are  so  often  due  to  faulty  metabo- 
lism, and  especially  in  melancholy  of  all  ages,  Phospho- Albumen  by  its 
reconstructive  qualities  recommends  itself  to  specialists  and  general  prac- 
titioners who  are  experienced  with  its  effects  in  other  conditions  and  who 
are  warm  in  expressions  of  praise  for  its  usefulness."  It  looks  very  much 
as  if  common  sense  could  now  be  bought  by  the  pound  and  ounce,  but 
also  in  this  particular  case  allopathy  appears  to  be  confounded  by  its  own 
remedies  ! 

A  dozen  of  such  glandular  extracts  is  now  on  the  market,  and  their 
number  is  constantly  increasing.  Soon  we  will  have  hair-root  extracts 
for  bald  heads  and  toe  extracts  for  pain  in  the  toe  :  then  man  will  be 
provided  for  from  head  to  foot.  But  why  go  so  far  into  detail  and  pre- 
pare a  special  extract  for  each  part  of  the  body  ?  Would  it  not  be  much 
simpler  to  return  to  cannibalism  ?  Then  we  would  enjoy  everything  in 
the  form  most  similar  to  the  respective  parts  of  our  body. 

The  whole  affair  of  the  glandular  extracts  is  only  a  rather  corrupt 
concession  to  the  homeopathic  principle  similia  similibits  curantur,  i.  e. 
similar  cures  similar,  but  according  to  its  own  doctrines  allopathy  had  to 
cure  disease  by  reacting  measures,  contraria  co>itraribi(s  curantur,  for  in- 
stance "  hunger  typhus  "  by  an  extract  of  sweat  gathered  from  the  capi- 
talistic brows,  just  as  modern  "statesmen"  use  powder  and  bullets 
against  famine  riots. 

There  is  at  least  something  good  in  this  new  direction  of  the  allo- 
pathic healing  art  :  it  furnishes  some  material  for  humor  and  involuntary 
comic.  It  almost  realizes  the  scheme  of  the  celebrated  "Nuremberg 
Funnel"  (Nuemberger  Trickier)  by  supplying  extract  of  sheep's  brain 
to  the  feebie-minded, — with  what  effect  could  not  be  ascertained  so  far. 

That  the  names  for  these  latest  allopathic  products  remind  us  of  the 
mythological  age  might  also  be  a  reconciling  feature  for  some  people. 

Tin-  gods  and  half-gods  of  the  ancients  are  commonly  regarded  im- 
mortal and  therefore  cannot  possibly  turn  in  the  grave  if  they  should 
hear  what  use  is  being  made  of  their  names,  but  Aphrodite,  the  froth- 
born,  would  surely  blush. 

For  the  historian  also  opens  a  new  field,  and  he  will  soon  be  able  to 
prove  that  the  "Ambrosia  and  Nectar"  of  the  gods  was  made  according 
to  the  formula  : — 

//.     Extr.  ABC etc.     Extr.  X  V  /.. 

and  that  the  black  porridge  of  the  invincible  Spartans  and  the  mead  of 
the  vigorous  old  Germans  were  made  according  to  the  same  directions. 


The  singer  will  perhaps  soon  find  that  cultivation  of  the  voice  is 
made  unnecessary  by  extract  No and  the  pianist  will  possibly  dis- 
cover that  dexterity  of  the  fingers  is  readily  attained  by  the  use  of  extract 
No.  .  .  ., — a  really  promising  outlook. 

There  is  still  another  reconciling  factor  in  the  therapeutics  of  glan- 
dular extracts,  which  we  cheerfully  acknowledge,  as  we  are  always  easily 
satisfied  in  regard  to  ' '  allopathy  and  progress  ' ' :  we  are  glad  that  in  the 
beginning  of  the  twentieth  century  allopathy  does  not  return  to  the  in- 
sane blood-letting,  which  was  still  in  vogue  in  the  first  half  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  We  nearly  had  to  fear  that,  and  for  that  reason  we  even 
regard  "sheep's  brain"  as  a  progress,  especially  as  some  allopaths  already 
remembered  that  pernicious  practice  of  a  dark  age.  Only  one  has  to 
start,  and  the  others  will  follow  at  once  in  the  same  old  track. 

For  another  reason  we  prefer  the  glandular  extracts,  however  useless 
and  even  injurious  they  are  :  they  are  not  quite  as  fatal  as  the  medicine 
poisons  and  are  easier  eliminated  by  the  system.  While  the  poisonous 
drugs  slowly  stupefy  the  vital  actions  of  the  organism  altogether  and  in 
many  instances  injure  beyond  repair,  the  system  quickly  responds  to  the 
injections  of  the  glandular  extracts  with  the  symptoms  of  acute  poison- 
ing :  affections  of  the  heart,  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  intestines,  vomit- 
ing, headache,  increased  perspiration, — symptoms  which  soon  make  them- 
selves perceptible  in  contrast  to  the  insidious  and  slowly-killing  medicine 
poisons. 

The  injections  of  glandular  extracts  are  followed  (similar  as  in  vacci- 
nations) by  a  darkening  of  the  iris  starting  from  the  pupil,  the  infallible 
signs  of  inflammation  of  the  stomach  and  intestines.  This  darkening  is 
not  symmetrical  all  around  the  iris,  and  we  are  trying  to  show  this  in 
Figures  40  and  41.  What  we  have  left  white  in  the  figures  represents 
the  original  color  of  the  iris,  for  instance  blueish-green  ;  then  follow  the 
lines  of  inflammation  and  later  the  dark  signs  of  catarrhal  defects. 

Thus  capitalism  and  allopathy  will  not  rest  to  enact  still  many  a  kind 
of  vaccination,  though  not  always  with  the  same  apparent  failures  ;  but 
humanity  and  enlightenment  will  triumph  in  the  end.  We,  however, 
agree  with  those  who  justly  ask  that  the  inventors  of  such  medicaments 
should  try  them  first  on  themselves  (as  the  homeopaths  do),  although  we 
oppose  all  kinds  of  medicine  poisoning. 

E.     Signs  of  Operations. 

We  discussed  the  injuries  and  the  changes  in  the  iris  produced  by 
allopathic  medicaments  and  vaccinations,  and  come  now  to  those  effected 
by  operations.  The  more  and  more  apparent  inability  of  allopathy  made 
surgery  an  important  part  of  medical  science,  and  there  is  no  bodily  organ 
which  has  not  yet  been  cut  and  declared  unnecessary.  The  report  gene- 
rally says  :  "  The  patient  was  successfully  operated,  but  by  his  own  fault 
everything  was  frustrated,  and  he  died  ten  minutes  later."    Nevertheless, 

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the  news  of  the  successful  and  daring  operation  is  told  in  a  sensational 
manner,  while  the  death  of  the  poor  victim  is  hardly  mentioned.  The 
following  touching  report  of  Liljequist  shows  best  what  we  ought  to 
think  of  operations  : 

"The  story  of  the  steersman  W. — In  the  year  1877  during  his  sojourn 
on  the  Philippine  Islands  there  appeared  a  watery  effusion  in  the  right 
thorax,  but  he  was  unable  to  secure  a  physician.  In  1880,  while  in 
Japan,  he  had  chronic  gonorrhea.  In  1881  he  contracted  typhoid  fever 
on  Vancouver  Island,  B.  C,  and  was  treated  by  a  physician,  Dr.  Kick. 
After  he  had  recovered,  the  water  in  the  chest  reappeared.  The  physi- 
cian intended  to  tap,  but  the  patient  did  not  consent.  In  1886  he  returned 
from  Alaska  ;  he  was  again  afflicted  with  typhoid  fever  and  afterward 
with  ulceration  in  the  thorax.  Nearly  two  quarts  of  pus  were  tapped  by 
the  physician  on  Vancouver  Island.  The  patient  had  good  appetite,  but 
after  three  days  the  thorax  was  again  filled  with  pus.  A  silver  pipe  and 
a  rubber  hose  were  set  in.  During  ten  months  the  pus  was  flowing  con- 
tinually. But  now  the  surrounding  tissues  began  to  putrefy.  An  ope- 
ration was  performed  between  the  ribs.  Two  pipes  were  set  in.  After  a 
while  worms  appeared  in  the  chest.  One  day  he  himself  took  out  over 
three  hundred  worms  half  an  inch  long.  (Now  I  began  to  doubt  the 
man's  veracity  in  spite  of  seeing  his  misery  ;  but  he  was  ready  to  verify 
his  statements  under  oath  and  therefore  I  had  to  believe  him.)  First 
two  ribs  were  cut  out  and  afterwards  five  ;  the  chest  was  opened  and 
washed  out.  After  a  two  years'  stay  in  the  hospital  he  had  so  far  recov- 
ered that  he  could  make  the  trip  across  the  ocean.  The  newspapers  in 
America  had  been  full  of  praise  for  the  happily  performed  operation.  I 
wish  those  reporters  had  seen  him  as  I  saw  him  !  Since  he  left  America 
in  1890,  about  half  a  coffee  cup  full  of  pus  daily  flows  from  his  opened 
chest.  Miserable  and  enfeebled,  he  is  unfit  for  the  slightest  exertion. 
Can  that  be  called  "curing  "  ?  If  I  hear  by  the  newspapers  of  the  great 
performances  or  masterpieces  of  the  surgeons,  I  always  think  :  '  Better 
wait  and  see  how  long  it  will  last.'  One  thing,  however,  is  certain.  If 
the  knife  is  once  used,  it  is  impossible  to  perfectly  cure  a  disease.  Each 
operation  leaves  inextinguishable  signs  in  the  iris.  It  may  be  mentioned 
that  the  steersman  W.  ha'd  a  watch-chain  made  from  his  own  ribs.  The 
reader  can  imagine  that  in  such  an  interesting  case  I  requested  the  man 
to  undress  himself,  so  that  I  could  see  with  my  own  eyes  the  hole  in  his 
side.      It  was  shocking  to  look  upon."  — 

This  is  but  one  of  the  many  thousand  cases  of  "successful  Opera- 
tions" which  constantly  fill  the  world  with  cripples.  How  many  a  poor 
man  has  been  sent  to  an  early  grave,  because  of  this  insane  craving  of 
the  surgeons  to  operate  under  the  slightest  excuse  ! 

All  operations  leave  black  spots  surrounded  by  white  crooked  lines, 
inextinguishable  signs  of  lost  substance,  in  those  sections  of  the  iris 
which  correspond  to  the  amputated  parts  of  the  body. 

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4.    THE  CAUSES  OF  DISEASE. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  is  giving  us  full  enlightenment  in  regard 
to  the  state  of  the  acute  or  feverous  as  well  as  of  the  chronic  diseases,  and 
will  show  that  the  latter  are  caused  by  organic  derangements.  Further- 
more we  are  taught  that  aside  from  epidemics  and  blood  poisoning  the 
causes  of  disease  are  : 

1.  Inherited  impurity  of  the  blood. 

2.  Irrational  care  of  the  new-born,  viz.: 

a)  Improper  food  during  infancy  if  the  child  cannot  be  nursed  by 
the  mother  ;  if  the  infant  is  fed  with  cow's  milk,  it  should  be  given 
uncooked  and  undiluted,  as  it  contains  less  solid  nourishment  than  mother's 
milk.  The  thinning  of  the  milk  is  always  burdening  the  digestive  organs 
and  causes  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  the  intestines. 

b)  The  body  is  hindered  by  the  warm,  relaxing  bath  to  get  rid  of 
the  inherited  impurities  of  the  blood. 

3.  False  treatment  of  the  milk-scurf  ;  by  this  skin  disease  the  vigor- 
ous body  tries  to  eliminate  the  inherited  impurities.  The  suppression  of 
the  vital  action  by  fats,  oils,  ointments,  warm  baths,  etc.,  always  weakens 
the  body  which  is  thereby  encumbered  with  morbid  matter  and  checked 
in  its  proper  development.  Milk-scurf  which  is  thus  falsely  treated 
causes  the  blackening  of  the  rim  of  the  iris  like  other  skin  diseases  (with 
the  exception  of  scabies  or  crab-lice)  if  treated  in  the  same  irrational  man- 
ner. From  the  standpoint  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  we  therefore 
take  all  such  skin  diseases  for  subordinate  kinds  of  milk-scurf. 

4.  Vaccination,  by  aggravating  already  inherited  deteriority  of  the 
blood,  hinders  the  body  in  every  instance  to  eliminate  the  morbid  matter 
and  always  prevents  the  iris  from  getting  a  lighter  color.  Although  I 
object  to  every  kind  of  vaccination,  because  I  know  the  dangerous  effects, 
yet  I  must  say  that  the  injuries  produced  by  2  a  and  3  are  often  equal  to 
those  of  vaccination  ;  so  I  know  a  case  where  milk-scurf  had  been  sup- 
pressed by  application  of  cream,  and  soon  a  yellowish  rim  formed  around 
the  pupil,  the  eye  grew  darker  and  critical  affections  of  the  heart  and 
brain  set  in. 

5.  Suppression  of  the  scabies  by  ointments,  shown  in  the  iris  by 
the  sharply  edged,  red-brown  spots  already  mentioned  above. 

6.  Allopathic  maltreatment  ;  it  is  the  cause  of  new  and  aggravated 
diseases,  the  consequences  of  medicine  poisonings. 

5.    THE  DENSITY  OF  THE  IRIS. 

We  have  become  acquainted  with  the  fact  that  the  color  of  the  iris 
is  indicating  the  condition  of  the  body,  and  we  now  come  to  another 
equally  important  measure  of  health,  the  density  of  the  iris. 

With  the  latter  term  the  diognosis  from  the  eye  signifies  the  total 
impression  which  we  receive  by  examining  the  iris  (aside  from  regarding 

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its  color),  only  considering  the  spots,  points,  clouds,  lines  (straight 
and  bent,  or  annular).  The  density  of  the  iris  corresponds  to  the  con- 
stitution of  the  body  (i.  e.  its  natural  vigor)  in  such  a  degree  that  eyes 
where  the  above-named  signs  are  missing  are  the  best.  The  diagnosis 
from  the  eye  distinguishes  six  classes  of  density  of  the  iris,  and  conse- 
quently of  natural  vigor  of  the  body: 

1.  Very  fine  and  dense  iris, — similar  to  glass  or  mother-of-pearl  ;  it 
is  most  frequently  found  with  sailors  or  mountaineers,  with  persons  who 
have  sufficient  physical  exercise,  live  moderately  and  soberly,  avoid  stim- 
ulants, narcotics,  and  medicine  poisons,  and  who  descend  from  healthy 
parents. 

2.  Fine  iris. 

3.  Common  iris,  which  to-day  is  almost  universal. 

4.  Coarse  iris. 

5  and  6  irises  with  signs  of  inherited  organic  lesions. 

These  figures  correspond  with  the  six  subdivisions  in  Figure  8, 
representing  the  six  different  classes. 

Density  and  color  of  the  iris  do  not  always  correspond  with  each  other 
but  are  often  in  a  reversed  relation,  which  is  natural,  however.  The  iris 
of  a  man  with  a  frail  constitution,  who  has  never  used  medicine  poisons, 
wrill  show  a  good  color  even  in  an  advanced  age,  as  it  is  but  self-evident 
that  the  additional  injuries  would  have  soon  closed  his  eyes  forever.  The 
signs  of  severe  medicine  poisoning  we  therefore  find  more  frequently  with 
hardy  and  robust  people  having  an  iris  of  the  first  or  second  class,  be- 
cause they  can  withstand  injurious  influences  for  a  long  time. 

6.    THE  SIGNS  OF  DEFECTIVE  ORGANS. 

Nature  discloses  the  abnormal  or  morbid  state  of  the  body  in  the  iris 
in  two  ways  : 

A)  Inflammations,  by  white  lines,  points  or  clouds,  which  are  some- 
what relieved  from  the  surrounding  parts. 

B)  Graver  and  gravest  defects  which  we  call  catarrhal  derangements, 
by  deeper  going  black  spots. 

The  white  signs  of  inflammation  are  formed  by  the  circumstance 
that  the  nerve-fibers  are  elevated  over  the  surface  of  the  iris  ;  the  dark 
signs  of  chronic  catarrh  are  effected  by  the  appearance  of  the  black 
background  of  the  iris  as  the  several  layers,  forming  quasi  a  curtain,  are 
gradually  removed  in  the  parts  corresponding  to  the  diseased  organs. 
(  We  wish  to  remark  here  that  these  significations  do  not  refer  to  those 
in  Chapter  IV.,  4,  in  regard  to  the  condition  of  the  blood.  I 

The  presence  of  light-red  tender  lines,  which  could  not  be  explained 
s<,  far,  indicates  the  rebuilding  of  new  tissues  and  the  eliminating  of  mor- 
bid matter  from  the  encumbered  parts  of  the  body,  accompanied  by  a 
crisis  at  certain  intervals;   the  question  whether  those  red  lines  are  in  any 

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way  connected  with  the  sexual  or  genital  life,  will  be  fully  treated  by  us 
later.  We  only  mentioned  these  lines  here  for  the  sake  of  completeness; 
they  are  of  little  practical  value  in  general,  as  they  can  only  be  observed 
by  the  more  experienced  investigator. 

The  natural  white  lines  are  easily  distinguished  on  those  effected  by 
medicines,  as  the  latter  have  a  somewhat  cloudy  appearance  and  are 
nearer  to  the  surface  of  the  iris,  while  the  former  are  distinctly  drawn. 

Before  entering  into  the  discourse  of  defects,  such  as  they  are  syste- 
matically shown  in  Figure  4,  we  must  say  a  few  words  in  regard  to  the 
study  of  reproducing  the  signs  of  the  eye.  Even  the  greatest  master 
is  unable  to  perfectly  imitate  the  works  of  nature,  as  it  is  absolutely 
impossible  to  attain  the  wonderful  fineness  of  creation  ;  we  therefore  had 
to  take  certain  liberties  in  the  reproduction  of  the  signs  in  the  eye,  to 
facilitate  a  better  understanding. 


Figure  4. 


A.     Signs  of  Inflammation. 
In  Figure  4 ,  section  1 ,  we  have — 

a)  a  pure,  uncorrupted  inflammation  at  its  height  (left  side  of  the 
section);  if  nature  is  not  impeded  in  her  curative  effort  (see  third  part  of 
the  book),  the  white  color  will  gradually  pass  away  and  the  color  of  the 
iris  reappears,  as  it  is  shown  in  the  right  side  of  section  1 ,  and  soon  even 
the  last  sign  ot  the  sickness  will  have  vanished.  This  is  the  ideal  course 
under  a  treatment  according  to  the  laws  of  nature, — no  sign  of  an  ab- 
normal condition  remains.  If  we  disturb  nature  in  her  healing  process 
(by  scarification,  ice-bags,  medicines,  vitiated  air  of  the  sick-room,  etc.), 
but  do  not  make  any  too  grave  mistakes  in  the  treatment,  the  formation  of 

b)  an  open  (latent)  defect  will  begin  (section  2),  i.  e.  the  sign  of  a 
half  acute,  half  chronic  condition,  like  asthma,  gleet,  etc. 

The  lines  or  clouds  do  not  show  a  pure  but  a  grayish  white,  the  con- 
sequence of  the  irrational  treatment ;  the  patient  has  the  sensation  of 

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pain  occasionally,  which  indicates  that  the  particular  part  is  still  encum- 
bered with  morbid  matter.  If  we  invigorate  the  body  by  a  rational 
method  of  living,  the  latent  inflammation  becomes  an  acute  one,  by  which 
the  impurities  are  eliminated.  If  the  system  has  not  the  opportunity  to 
return  to  its  normal  condition,  the  injured  organ  can  be  but  imperfectly 
repaired,  and 

c)  a  closed  defect  (section  3)  ensues.  Closed  defects,  while  they  have 
ceased  to  be  painful,  always  have  the  tendency  to  deteriorate  and  under 
continued  unhygienic  conditions  to  become 

B.     Catarrhal  Defects. 

These  appear  in  the  iris  as  dark  shadings,  surrounded  and  inter- 
woven by  white  lines.  The  darker  the  shadings  are  and  the  more  they 
predominate  over  the  white  lines,  the  more  serious  are  the  defects,  the 
more  fatal  the  destruction  which  is  going  on  in  the  respective  organs  and 
which  in  many  instances  is  likely  to  become  the  beginning  of  the  end.  If 
by  prudence,  patience,  and  perseverance  the  system  begins  to  recover, 
the  black  shadings  will  be  gradually  traversed  by  white  lines  ;  a  complete 
recovery,  i.  e.  the  disappearance  of  all  signs,  is  only  possible  under  the 
most  favorable  sanitary  conditions. 

The  defects  of  this  class  are  often  accompanied  by  catarrhs  or  run- 
ning sores,  i.  e.  open  places  in  the  skin  which  secrete  pus  and  blood, 
while  in  severer  cases  decomposed  tissues,  autotoxins,  and  medicine  poi- 
sons are  expelled. 

In  this  class  also  we  have  three  subdivisions: — 

a)  Open  catarrhal  defects  (section  4);  such  cases  are  still  accompanied 
by  pain,  perhaps  not  always  in  such  a  degree  as  from  the  seriousness  of 
the  defects  might  be  expected. 

b)  Closed  catarrhal  defects  (section  5);  these  are  dark  or  black  parts 
in  the  iris  surrounded  and  traversed  by  white  lines.  These  defects  are 
also  produced  by  giving  a  violent  shock  to  the  nervous  system,  or  a 
blow,  or  strains  and  fractures  ;  in  such  cases  the  white  lines  indicate 
those  those  parts  where  the  blood  has  deposited  an  excess  of  mineral  salts 
to  repair  the  damage,  while  the  dark  spots  are  caused  by  the  bursting  oi 
the  blood-vessels,  loss  of  blood  and  interrupted  circulation. 

c)  Black  spots  (section  6).  We  always  find  these  if  the  body  has  lost 
substance,  i.  e.  loss  or  decay  of  organs,  whole  or  in  part  ;  we  call  them: — 

1.  Hereditary  defects  in  the  new-born,  and 

2.  Acquired  defects  if  they  are  formed  in  the  Struggle  for  existence, 
by  the  irrational  treatment  of  disease  or  l>v  the  knife  of  the  surgeon. 
Their  seriousness  we  have  to  judge  by  the  degree  in  which  the  deep-black 
color  has  increased  or  diminished. 

In  this  respect  we  distinguish  : — 

Catarrhal  defects  of  the  first  class,  if  the  white  lines  of  healing  overrule 
the  lilu  k  color  of  destruction. 

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Catarrhal  defects  of  the  second  class,  if  the  white-  and  black  color  are 
about  equally  represented. 

Catarrhal  defects  of  the  third  class,  if  the  deep  black  color  is  separated 
by  gaps  and  the  white  healing  lines  exist  but  sparingly. 

In  drawing  our  conclusions  for  the  practical  diagnosis  of  the  diseases 
from  what  we  have  said  in  the  foregoing  lines  of  this  chapter  (a  subject 
which  is  made  still  plainer  by  a  number  of  illustrations  in  the  second  part 
of  the  book),  we  arrive  at  views  which  are  as  important,  as  they  are 
entirely  different,  from  those  which  rule  to-day,  viz.: 

That  asthma  is  a  continual  inflammation  of  the  lungs,  that  cancer 
and  also  infantile  dislocation  of  the  hip-joint  are  in  most  cases  catarrhal 
defects  of  the  first  class  and  take  less  time  for  healing  by  natural  methods 
than  cold  tumors  or  catarrhal  defects  of  the  second  class,  etc. 

The  signs  of  scabies  and  milk-scurf  (appearing  at  the  outer  edge  of 
the  iris)  are  in  regard  to  their  curableness  equal  to  the  defects  shown  in 
section  3,  signs  of  medicines  equal  to  the  catarrhal  defects  in  section  4, 
i.  e.  gaps  produced  by  the  influence  of  drugs.  It  is  almost  impossible  to 
heal  several  such  gaps,  as  they  represent  such  serious  defects  that  a  gene- 
ration will  sometimes  pass  before  they  entirely  disappear.  These  facts 
may  be  somewhat  desolate  and  depressing  for  the  present  generation 
which  in  its  mad  rush  after  the  almighty  dollar  seems  to  have  entirely 
lost  the  way  which  leads  to  perfect  physical  and  mental  health,  the  real 
foundation  of  happiness  and  contentment.  But  for  every  thinking  mind 
they  will  be  a  sweet  consolation  and  a  spur  to  spread  real  knowledge, 
making  it  possible  to  raise  a  new  and  better  generation,  sane  in  body  and 
mind  and  free  from  the  poisons  with  which  a  pseudo-science  pretends  to 
improve  on  nature,  the  eternal  fountain  of  truth  and  wisdom.  By  no 
other  means  can  the  correctness  of  the  claims  and  teachings  of  nature 
cure  be  more  firmly  established  than  by  our  wonderful  art,  the  diagnosis 
from  the  eye. 

In  regard  to  the  signs  called  nerve  or  cramp  rings,  we  have  to  distin- 
guish in  three  directions  : — 

First,  the  ring  may  be  observed  before  or  during  a  crisis,  a  circum- 
stance by  which  we  are  able  to  designate  those  organs  in  which  an  in- 
creased activity  is  going  on. 

Second,  they  can  indicate,  in  connection  with  the  above  :  an  over- 
strained nervous  system,  when  the  body  is  working  under  high  pressure 
to  expel  the  impurities  circulating  in  the  blood.  Furthermore,  the  rings 
can  be  a  sign  of  nervousness  or  neurasthenia. 

Third,  they  are  real  cramp  signs.     If  they  appear  simultaneously 

with  other  encumbrances  in  the  genital  organs  (ovary  31  and  uterus  27) 

of  the  female  sex,  they  are  the  signs  of  menstrual  colics;  if  they  are  noticed 

in  the  section  of  the  diaphragm  32,  they  indicate  gastric  and  intestinal 

colics.     In  the  region  of  the  head,  according  to  the  places  where  they  are 

most  frequent : 

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In  ||  of  the  right  and  left  eye  :  agoraphobia,  loss  of  equilibrium,  in- 
ebriety, delirium  tremens. 

In  \  \  of  the  right  eye  :  hysteria  in  its  various  forms,  weeping-cramps, 
epileptic-like  conditions,  abnormities  of  the  sexual  life. 

In  \\  of  the  left  eye  :  inclination  to  dizziness,  faintings,  apoplexy,  and 
even  the  real  cramps  of  epilepsy. 

In  \\  right  and  left  eye  ■  impaired  will  and  loss  of  intellectual  power. 

The  rings  are  not  always  closed,  we  often  see  only  half-circles,  often 
only  indications  of  such  ;  furthermore,  they  may  not  be  equally  distinct 
in  both  irises,  for  instance  they  may  be  slightly  indicated  in  one  eye, 
while  the  other  eye  shows  distinct  rings. 

A  morbid  encumbrance  causing  the  above-named  consequencencs  in 
their  faint  beginnings,  makes  itself  noticeable  in  the  iris  by  more  or  less 
distinct  black,  radiant  lines  ;  the  latter  have  already  been  mentioned  as 
radii  so/ares,  and  we  shall  refer  to  them  again  in  the  second  part  of  the 
book  in  Figure  15.  The  appearance  of  these  signs  may  be  due  to  the  cir- 
cumstance that  some  of  the  nerve  filaments  in  that  section  have  been  set 
aside,  showing  the  black  background  of  the  iris  in  the  defected  places,  or 
they  may  sometimes  be  due  to  an  increase  of  black  color  in  the  direction 
of  these  peculiar  lines,  starting  from  the  pupil  and  going  straight  to  the 
periphery  of  the  iris. 


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CHAPTER  V. 

Key  to  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye. 

kN  the  following  page  we  give  a  drawing  by  which  every  one  can 
learn  most  rapidly  how  to  make  practical  use  of  our  art,  pro- 
vided he  has  sufficient  interest  in  the  matter  ;  it  is  necessary  that  the 
student  completely  impresses  this  drawing  on  his  mind,  and  for  this  pur- 
pose we  will  give  short  directions  : 

Imagine  each  eye  horizontally  and  vertically  prolongated  and  divided 
by  a  vertical  line  into  two  parts  ;  put  the  outer  half  of  the  right  eye  on 
the  front  part  of  the  right  half  of  the  body  and  the  outer  half  of  the  left 
eye  on  the  front  part  of  the  left  half  of  the  body,  in  such  a  way  that  the 
pupil  covers  the  navel ;  put  the  inner  half  of  the  eyes  in  the  same  manner 
on  the  back  parts  of  the  body.  These  directions  will  soon  enable  the 
beginner  to  memorize  the  whole  key,  as  it  shows  him  at  once  how  won- 
derfully the  sections  of  the  iris  correspond  to  the  different  parts  of  the 
body. 

We  start  from  the  pupil  which  is  the  terminal  of  the  nerve  filaments 
going  to  the  iris.  In  its  normal  state  the  pupil  is  easily  moved,  while 
difficult  mobility  indicates  serious  nervous  diseases.  Next  to  the  pupil 
follow  the  stomach  and  the  adjacent  parts  of  the  intestines,  also  showing 
the  condition  of  the  mucous  membranes  of  the  body.  This  part  is  first 
invaded  by  the  medicine  poisons  and  is  strikingly  characterized  in  the 
eye  of  those  suffering  from  hemorrhoids. 

The  section  of  the  liver  33  A  also  contains — but  somewhat  nearer  to 
32 — B  the  signs  of  the  bile,  and  bordering  on  10  those  of  the  pancreas  (P). 

If  we  have  repeatedly  and  diligently  observed,  for  instance  by  draw- 
ing, how  the  defective  organs  are  characterized  in  the  iris,  we  shall  find  : 
( 1 )  that  the  signs  not  always  fill  the  whole  section  designated  to  them  by 
the  key;  (2)  that  they  may  just  as  well  reach  into  the  neighboring  sec- 
tions ;  the  latter  is  often  noticed,  especially  in  the  case  of  catarrh  of  the 
'lungs  (36),  kidneys  (28),  bladder  (26).  Such  signs  will  not  show  that 
the  neighboring  parts  are  also  affected,  but  that  the  condition  of  that 
particular  organ  is  especially  alarming  and  that  in  most  cases  decomposi- 
tion has  set  in.  The  clearness  of  the  diagnosis  will  not  be  influenced  by 
this  divergence,  because  the  white  lines  going  to  the  pupil  will  always 
keep  in  the  location  of  the  section,  as  given  in  the  drawing. 

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The  diligent  student  will  make  a  third  observation  :  that  while  the 
signs  of  defective  organs  do  not  always  fill  the  entire  sections  designated 
to  them  by  the  key,  they  appear  most  frequently  and  clearly  in  certain 
parts  of  the  sections,  for  instance  defects  of  the  skin  (burns,  suppressed 
milk-scurf,  etc.)  near  the  outer  edge  of  the  iris,  while  the  defects  of  the 
lungs,  etc.,  are  marked  in  the  middle  between  the  edge  and  the  pupil. 

This  fact  is  of  great  value,  as  the  inherited  organic  defects  (i.  e.  the 
black  spots  which  are  not  clearly  bordered  by  white  lines)  are  distinctly 
recorded  between  the  concentric  rings,  in  the  order  given  in  Figure  7,  in 
the  same  way  as  the  signs  called  nerve  or  cramp-rings. 


Figure  7. 


In  dividing  the  iris  in  seven  concentric  rings  (Fig.  7),  we  find  that 
the  defects  of  the  different  parts  of  the  body  are  registered  as  follow  s  : 

In  ring  1  the  defects  of  the  stomach. 

In  ring  2  the  defects  of  the  intestines. 

In  ring  3  the  defects  of  the  heart,  pancreas,  kidneys. 

In  ring  4  the  defects  of  the  respiratory  organs  (the  bronchi,  larynx, 
trachea,  lungs,  diaphragm). 

In  ring  5  the  defects  of  the  brain,  sexual  centres  of  the  brain  and 
sexual  organs. 

In  ring  6  the  defects  of  the  liver,  spleen,  thyroid  gland  and  the 
smaller  glands. 

In  ring  7  the  defects  of  the  skin,  limbs,  ruptures,  muscles  and  motor 
nerves. 

The  following  drawings,  which  invite  a  diligent  study,  will  soon 
make  the  student  familiar  with  our  wonderful  art.  The  figures  consist 
partly  of  line-drawings,  partly  of  half-tones,  always  endeavoring  to  give 
the  possible-  best  reproductions. 

That  what  we  called  density  of  the  iris  (Chapter  IV.,  5)  and  to 

which    next    to   the   color   the    investigator   should  direct    his  attention,  is 

represented  in  Figure  <s. 

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%      M      "/, 


Right  Eye.  Left  Eye. 

KEY 

To  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye. 

Abbreviations;  Right  Eye,  r.  e.;  Left  Eye,  1.  e.    Where  it  is  not  specially  remarked,  the  resp.  number! 
represent  in  both  eyes  the  same  parts  of  the  body. 


1     Pupil ;  the  terminus  of  the  nerve- 

19 

filaments  of  the  iris. 

20 

2     Stomach.     A  front   part,     B  back 

21 

part,    C    mouth    of    the    stomach, 

P  pylorus. 

8<  — >5  1.  e.  and  4<  — >9r.  e.    Small 

""-' 

intestine.  8—51.  e.  duodenum;  4— 9 

23 

r.  e.  jejunum,  ilium. 

24 

9<  —  >10  r.   e      Coecum  and   in  the 

25 

middle  of  this  section  the  appendix 

vermiformis. 

26 

10<  —  >3  r.  e.     Ascending  colon. 

27 

3<  —  >4    r.     e.    and    5<  — >6    1.    e. 

Colon  transversum. 

6<  —  >7  1.  e.     Descending  colon. 

28 

7<  — >8   1.    e.     S  romanum    (flexura 

29 

sigmoidea). 

30 

11     Roof  of  the  skull,  cerebrum. 

\\     Right  eye  ;  sexual  and  mental  life, 

hysteria. 

ii     Left  eye:  nervous  conditions,  faint- 

31 

ings,  dizziness,  epilepsy. 

32 

12     Occiput,  cerebellum. 

33 

13     Ear. 

14     Neck. 

34 

15     Axilla  (armpit). 

35 

16     Forehead,  temple. 

36 

ii     Right  eye:  will. 

if     Left  eye:  intellectual  power. 

17     Eye. 

18     Nose.   Cheek. 

Cheek.  Nose. 

Mouth. 

D  Trachea  (windpipe),  ABC  r.  e. 

and  A  B  1.  e.  bronchi  and  bronchial 

tubes,  X  thyroid  gland,  E  larynx. 

(Only  in  the  left  eye):  esophagus. 

(Only  in  the  left  eye):  heart. 

Upper  back,  B  shoulder  blade. 

Lower  back,  A  to  C  spinal  column, 

C  coccyx. 

Bladder ;  1.  e.  N  navel. 

R.  e.:   A  urethra,   B  right  testicle, 

U  uterus,  V  vagina. — L.  e.:   A— 8 

rectum,  B  left  testicle,  A  anus. 

Kidnoys. 

Foot. 

Groin  ;  in  case  of  rupture  the  sign 

is   nearer    to   part    31,  in    case    of 

tumor  (bubo)  the  sign  is  nearer  to 

part  29. 

Hip,  ovaries. 

Diaphragm,  abdomen. 

R.  e.:  A  liver,  B  bile,   P  pancreas. 

— L.  e,:  spleen. 

Arms. 

Chest,  pleura,  ribs,  !Z1  nipple. 

Lungs;    r.   e..    A,   B,  C    the    three 

lobes  of   the   right  lung  (superior, 

middle,   and   inferior  lobe.— L.  e., 

A,  B  the  two  lobes  of  the  left  lung 

(superior  and  inferior  lobe). 


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Explanation  to  the  Key. 

The  iris  of  the  eye  (see  page  7,  figure  3),  which  resembles  a  movable 
curtain,  is  made  up  of  an  infinite  number  of  very  fine  small  nerve- 
filaments  which  receive  impressions  from  every  nerve-centre  and  portray 
at  once  every  change  in  the  organism  in  the  corresponding  part  of  the 
eye.  Thus  the  iris  becomes  the  visible  outward  terminus  of  the  entire 
nervous  system,  enabling  us  to  make  the  most  exact  diagnosis  of  the 
general  condition  of  the  body,  i.  e.  of  blood  and  lymph  as  well  as  of  all 
its  single  parts  and  organs. 

Very  careful  and  extensive  investigations  carried  on  for  a  number  of 
years  have  not  only  confirmed  this  discovery  beyond  all  doubt,  but  fur- 
nished also  the  proof  that  every  single  organ  and  part  of  the  body  is  repre- 
sented in  now  exactly  defined  parts  or  sections  of  the  iris.  According  to 
these  facts  we  have  divided  the  surface  of  the  iris  into  36  sections,  and 
we  herewith  publish  this  design  as  the  Key  to  our  work  ' '  The  Diagnosis 
from  the  Eye.''' 

This  Key  will  greatly  facilitate  the  comprehension  of  the  wonderful 
science  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye,  which  is  destined  to  become  the 
common  property  of  mankind. 

Key  and  figures  are  drawn  in  the  proportion  of  4:1  to  the  natural 
size. 


Figure  8. 


It  may  be  shortly  added,  that  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  also  con- 
firms the  theory  of  the  human  temperaments.  What  the  latter  calls 
"  non- vital,  lymphatic  temperament,"  is  recognized  by  our  diagnosis  by 
an  undistinct  separation  of  the  iris  from  the  white  of  the  eye,  i.  e.  the 
color  of  the  latter  is  projected  into  the  former.  Lymph  is  the  watery 
part  of  the  blood,  that  fluid  which  flows  from  the  vesicles  of  the  skin. 
The  above-mentioned  signs  show  us  that  the  blood  contains  too  much 
water  and  that  the  nervous  energy  has  diminished  either  in  the  whole 
body  or  the  respective  parts. 

The  opposite  case  (i.  e.  if  the  color  of  the  iris  is  projected  into  the 
white),  which  is  less  frequent  and  generally  of  short  duration,  indicates 
that  the  nerves  are  working  under  high  pressure, — a  sign  noticed  with 
excited  and  nervous  people,  generally  before  or  during  a  crisis. 

Whoever  has  attentively  followed  our  disquisitions — and  they  were 
written,  not  to  cause  anxiety,  but  to  teach  hygiene — will  gain  the  convic- 
tion that  disease  is  not  a  condition  created  by  casual  influences  (bacilli, 
change  of  weather,  etc.),  but  a  process, — sometimes  most  painful  but 
beneficial  in  the  end.  Disease  is  the  penalty  which  nature  imposes  on  us 
for  the  transgression  of  her  inexorable  laws,  but  it  is  at  the  same  time 
the  action  of  vital  force  which  attempts  to  eliminate  by  a  crisis  (fever, 
catarrh,  etc.)  the  morbid  matter  accumulated  in  our  body  by  our  per- 
verted dietetic  and  hygienic  habits.  Disease  should  not  be  feared  as  the 
demon  of  despair  and  destruction,  but  hailed  with  hope  and  joy  as  a  her- 
ald of  health  by  every  intelligent  person.  Disease  in  its  acute  stage,  as 
crisis,  is  the  infallible  sign  that  the  body  has  gathered  enough  vitality  to 
expel  the  impurities  and  to  restore  the  normal  state  of  health.  Therefore 
we  should  always  assist  Nature  as  much  as  possible  in  her  beneficial 
efforts  of  purification  and  not  suppress  the  symptoms  which  she  hangs 
out  as  danger-signals,  so  to  speak,  to  warn  us  of  further  transgressions. 

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It  is  of  great  theoretical  and  practical  importance  that  we  can  show 
by  our  art  the  connection  of  the  different  diseases  in  one  and  the  same 
individual  ;  they  are  often  the  result  of  repeated  suppressions  and  mal- 
treatments, so  that  one  ailment  is  hut  the  natural  consequence  of  the 
other.  The  clouds  in  the  iris  which  indicate  the  more  recent  diseases 
are  always  whiter  and  less  dense  than  those  of  the  original  disease. 
Moreover  our  art  distinctly  proves  that  it  is  a  most  pernicious  attempt  to 
interfere  with  the  vital  action  of  the  body  in  the  elimination  of  morbid 
matter.  Nature  which  develops  an  invisible  cell  into  an  organism  of  the 
most  wonderful  perfection,  certainly  also  knows  how  to  restore  health  if 
she  is  not  hampered  in  her  wise  but  often  misconceived  ways.  Especially 
in  the  cure  of  disease  this  great  truth  cannot  be  preached  too  clearly  and 
impressively:  The  lazes  of  nature  can  never  be  changed  voluntarily,  but  man 
must  study  these  lazvs  and  act  accordingly . 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  emphatically  pronounces  a  sentence  of 
condemnation  upon  allopathy,  surgery,  and  the  practice  of  specialists, 
although  their  doctrines  and  practices  are  sanctioned  by  a  diploma  of  the 
State.  Their  remedies,  as  drugs,  lymphs,  serums,  patent  medicines, 
tinctures,  etc. ,  always  suppress  or  impede  nature  in  her  healing  processes, 
while  our  diagnosis  teaches  :  Do  not  disturb  Nature, — she  will  always 
find  the  right  ways  and  means  ;  and  it  furthermore  explains  the  nature 
of  the  chronic  diseases,  proving  the  correctness  of  Hahnemann's  doctrine. 
Over  a  hundred  3'ears  ago  that  great  mind  taught  that  chronic  diseases 
are  directly  or  indirectly  caused  by  a  certain  scabious  matter  which  he 
called  psora,  or  by  syphilis,  or  by  sykosis  which  is  milk-scurf.  By  our 
diagnosis  it  will  also  become  apparent  that  chronic,  i.  e.  organic  diseases, 
can  never  be  cured  in  a  short  time,  as  under  the  most  favorable  conditions 
it  will  take  months,  even  years,  to  rebuild  the  organs  to  their  normal  or 
healthy  state. 


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SECOND  PART. 

The  Practice  of  the  Diagnosis  from  the  Eye. 

IN  the  following  chapter  we  give  those  readers  who,  urged  by  our 
discourse,  wish  to  try  themselves  in  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye 
some  points  how  to  study  and  make  use  of  our  art  to  the  best  advantage. 
The  student  must  proceed  systematically  and  try  himself  in  particu- 
lars and  subtleties  only  when  he  has  learned  to  diagnose  the  general  con- 
dition of  the  body  from  the  total  impression  of  the  eye.  We  therefore 
do  not  recommend  the  use  of  the  magnifying  glass,  as  we  ourselves  work 
without  it,  employing  it  only  in  rare  cases.  At  any  rate  we  should  not 
get  accustomed  to  it,  for  the  less  appliances  we  need  the  more  indepen- 
dent we  become,  and  a  man  who  does  not  know  the  alphabet  will  not  be 
able  to  read  even  with  the  use  of  eye-glasses. 


ISO 

Figure  9,  right  eye 


210 

Figure  10,  left  eye. 


The  student  may  at  first  try  his  art  on  good  models,  i.  e.  on  blue- 
eyed  and  not  encumbered  individuels,  because  it  is  difficult  to  distinguish 
inherited  defects  from  acquired  ones  ;  and  as  much  as  he  desires  to  have 
his  questions  answered  with  "yes,"  he  should  wait  with  asking  until  he 
is  sufficiently  advanced  to  make  a  perfect  diagnosis.  First  he  ought  to 
observe  the  condition  of  the  white  cornea,  the  edge  of  the  iris  and  its 
color  (signs  of  scabies),  mobility,  size  of  pupil,  and  make  notes  of  these 
points.  45 


The  signs  of  the  iris  are  best  drawn  on  paper  in  the  following  order  : 
first  all  dark  and  black  spots,  the  catarrhal  defects,  the  closed  defects, 
the  fresh  white  lines  of  inflammation,  and  last  the  medicine  colors. 

In  this  way  he  may  draw  his  conclusions  from  the  picture,  for  it  is 
of  importance  to  the  student  to  judge  the  healing  power  by  a  quick  and 
correct  comprehension  of  the  general  condition  of  the  individual.  The 
seriousness  of  a  defect  should  not  be  the  most  important  factor  in  his 
decision,  for  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  does  not  acknowledge  so-called 
incurable  conditions  (i.  e.  the  incurability  of  which  is  founded  in  the  j 
nature  of  the  disease  itself);  on  the  other  hand,  the  smallest  defect  may 
become  really  incurable  if  the  nervous  power  is  too  much  exhausted  or 
the  laws  of  nature  are  continually  violated  in  the  most  stupid  manner. 

We  warn  the  beginner  to  give  a  hasty  and  therefore  unreliable  diag- 
nosis of  the  seriousness  of  certain  defects,  for  instance  of  the  lungs  or 
kidneys,  as  such  decisions  will  be  of  little  value  before  the  student  has 
thoroughly  mastered  our  art.  Mastership  is  attained  by  exercise,  which 
in  our  case  means  to  sketch  attentively  and  industriously. 

The  color-reproduction  of  the  different  signs  is  a  very  difficult  prob- 
lem, and  we  hardly  believe  that  an  exact  likeness  of  the  iris  in  all  its 
details  could  be  produced  by  the  present  coloring-processes,  not  to  speak 
of  the  circumstance  that  the  price  of  this  book  would  thereby  be  greatly 
and  unnecessarily  increased.  Neither  can  photography  be  advantage- 
ously used,  because  the  picture  would  only  show  the  grosser  defects  but 
never  the  finer  and  equally  important  signs. 

With  but  little  industry  and  perseverance  the  student  will  be  able  to 
draw  good  pictures  of  the  iris,  to  know  his  own  condition  and  to  observe 
the  changes  going  on  in  the  eye. 

The  examinations  are  best  made  in  daylight,  avoiding  all  excitement 
or  anger  on  part  of  the  examined  person.  Don't  ask  too  many  questions; 
the  simple  remark,  for  instance:  "  Your  lungs  have  been  affected,''  might 
vex  the  patient,  a  circumstance  which  at  once  irritates  the  iris  and  makes 
it  difficult  to  discern  the  signs. 

An  accurate  and  careful  examination  is  very  fatiguing  for  both  par- 
ties and  may  require  from  two  to  three  hours  time  ;  from  five  to  ten  min- 
utes, however,  will  suffice  to  make  a  diagnosis  adequate  for  practical  use. 

In  enumerating  the  discovered  defects  after  the  examination,  the 
eye-diagnostician  will  often  have  his  questions  answered  in  the  negative, 
but  that  does  not  prove  that  he  is  wrong.  The  defects,  visible  to  him, 
have  not  yet  become  perceptible  to  the  questioned  person,  or  they  have 
been  forgotten  entirely;  but  the  eye  retains  them  better  than  the 
memory. 

From  a  long  series  of  such  cases,  which  almost  sound  like  anecdotes, 
we  shall  report  only  two  here.  A  lady  who  consulted  me  had  to  answer 
all  my  questions  in  the  affirmative;  only  to  the  question,  whether  she 
had  ever  suffered   from  a  serious  injury   in    the  right  chest,  she  replied 

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with  ' '  no  " ;  but  the  next  day  she  remembered  that  an  operation  was 
performed  on  that  part  of  the  body  twenty  years  ago,  leaving  a  large 
scar.  The  other  case  is  just  as  significant.  While  visting  a  befriended 
family,  I  examined  their  eight-year  old  son.  My  question,  if  they  had 
not  observed  that  the  boy  was  affected  with  cramps,  was  denied  also; 
the  parents  had  not  even  noticed  a  disordered  sheet  or  blanket  in  the 
boy's  bed,  as  such  attacks  often  happen  during  the  night.  But  while 
sleeping  with  the  youth  in  the  same  room  that  night,  I  was  awakened  by 
a  groaning  toward  the  morning,  and  I  found  the  boy  lying  in  spasms. 

The  sketching  of  the  iris  can  be  done  in  two  ways  :  ( 1 )  with  a  lead- 
pencil  on  white  paper  ;  the  white  places  of  inflammation  are  best  marked 
by  sharply-drawn  or  pointed  black  lines;  (2)  by  making  an  engraving  on 
medium-dark  stippled  and  embossed  paper  with  a  sharp-pointed  knife  ; 
this  will  give  more  natural  pictures,  as  we  are  enabled  to  exactly  repro- 
duce the  white  color  of  the  signs.  For  both  methods  the  student  will 
advantageously  use  our  patterns  (Figures  9  and  10).  For  self-diagnosis 
we  recommend  the  use  of  a  magnifying  looking-glass.  In  regard  to  the 
supply  of  these  articles,  we  refer  to  the  last  page  of  the  book. 

To  facilitate  the  study  and  scientific  intercourse  among  the  eye- 
diagnosticians,  we  recommend  the  adoption  of  our  method  of  reproducing 
defects,  thus  establishing  a  uniform  language  by  the  signs  of  the  eye. 


Figure  11. 


In  Figure  11  (compare  pp.  35-38)  sign  1  represents  a  fresh,  i.  e. 
acute  inflammation;  sign  2  A  open  and  B  closed  defects  of  inflammations; 
sign  3  catarrhal  defects:  the  degree  of  the  seriousness  is  indicated  by  the 
density  of  the  shading  ;  signs  4  loss  of  substance,  indicated  by  deep  black 
points  or  lines  ;  signs  5 +++  =  medicine  poisoning  and  sign  6©=  sup- 
pressed scabies,  both  signs  appearing  in  the  iris  as  colored  spots  ;  sign  7 
nerve-ring  ;  signs  8  scurf-rim  ;  signs  9  radiant  lines  {radii  solares). 

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.Figure  12. 


Figure  1 2  gives  a  systematic  reproduction  of  the  most  frequent  de- 
fects of  the  lungs  (in  the  upper  half  of  the  circle)  and  the  kidneys  (in  the 
lower  half  of  the  circle).  The  proper  region  of  the  lungs  in  the  iris  is 
shown  by  section  36  in  the  key,  that  of  the  kidneys  by  section  28.  We 
perceive  in  the  upper  part  of  the  figure  :  sign  1 ,  a  heavily  encumbered 
lung  ;  the  superior  lobe  is  tuberculous,  as  shown  by  the  black  points,  the 
signs  after  bleedings;  in  the  middle  lobe  we  discover  a  spot  of  suppressed 
scabies,  nerve-clouds  which  indicate  inclination  to  serious  catarrhal  de- 
fects, and  a  closed  catarrhal  defect ;  the  inferior  lobe  of  the  lungs  shows 
medicine  spot  and  open  defect  caused  by  inflammation.  Sign  2  shows  a 
fresh  case  of  pneumonia.  Sign  3  closed  and  open  defects  of  inflammation, 
which  become  in  sign  4  catarrhal  defects  having  still  somewhat  the  char- 
acter of  inflammation  and  are  consequently  not  yet  serious,  while  in  sign 
5  the  defects  have  deepened  and  increased  ;  but  in  sign  6  they  have 
assumed  a  deep  black  color,  indicating  destruction  and  loss  of  substance. 

In  the  lower  part  of  the  figure:  sign  1,  kidney  in  the  process  of 
complete  destruction,  suppurative  nephritis  ;  sign  2,  inflammation  of  kid- 
neys ;  signs  3,  scabies  and  medicine  spots  ;  signs  4,  catarrhal  defects  still 
curable;  sign  5,  very  wide  open  catarrhal  defect;  signs  6,  loss  of  sub- 
stance, most  frequently  noticed  in  the  region  of  the  kidneys. 

Next  to  the  digestive  organs  and  lungs,  the  kidneys  have  to  suffer 
the  most  from  our  unnatural  dietetic  habits  and  irrational  treatment  of 
diseases  during  all  stages  of  life.  The  suppression  of  milk-scurf  already 
overburdens  and  weakens  these  organs,  and  in  later  years  their  morbid 
condition  is  often  aggravated  by  the  allopathic  treatment  of  other  dis- 
eases.  The  function  of  the  kidneys  is  thereby  seriously  impeded,  and 
tlie  system  must  open  other  outlets  for  its  waste  products  which  are  then 
naturally  discharged  in  the  form  of  eczema,  running  sores,  sweating  of 
the  feet,  etc.  The  application  of  salves  and  smears  will  again  throw  the 
morbid  matter  upon  the  kidneys,  anil  suppuration  will  set  in. 

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Right  eye  ;  iris  was  originally  blue  ;  now  the  inner  half  round  the 
pupil  is  brown,  outer  half  whitish-blue  ;  whole  scurf-rim ;  29  sweating 
foot ;  34  sweating  hand ;  sweating  hands  or  such  which  get  easily  cold 
or  sore  are  the  consequence  of  suppressed  milk-scurf,  while  sweating 
feet  inclining  to  soreness  are  the  sign  of  overworked  kidneys  ;  28  inflam- 
mation of  the  kidneys  ;  36  inflammation  of  the  lungs  ;  34  upper  arm, 
closed  defect  after  a  fontanel,  an  especially  interesting  sign,  as  this  ope- 
ration is  not  being  performed  any  more  to-day. 

The  study  of  this  figure  will  demonstrate  the  connection  between 
the  exterior  skin  and  the  mucous  membranes  covering  the  interior  organs. 
If  the  skin  cannot  perforin  its  important  function  of  eliminating  effete 
matter,  it  is  self-evident  that  other  organs  must  assume  the  work  of  the 
former  to  adjust  the  defect  as  much  as  possible,  otherwise  the  body  will 
soon  perish  by  autotoxins.  as  in  case  of  serious  scalds  or  burns.  At  first, 
especially  in  case  of  colds,  the  digestive  organs  try  to  assume  the  skin's 
function  by  an  increased  discharge  of  worn-out  matter  in  form  of  catarrh 
of  the  stomach  and  intestines,  i.  e.  violent  diarrheas.  If  the  digestive 
apparatus,  however,  is  unable  to  do  the  increased  amount  of  work,  the 
organs  of  respiration  are  charged  with  it.  The  effete  matter  is  then 
eliminated  as  catarrh  or  inflammation  of  the  lungs,  or  asthma  ;  the  lat- 
ter, according  to  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye,  is  nothing  but  a  chronic 
inflammation  of  the  lungs. 

In  the  case  of  sign  36,  right  lung,  the  thirty-year  old  patient  states: 
"  I  had  been  afflicted  with  dry  lichen  which  was  suppressed  by  tar-salves; 
then  wet  lichen  appeared  which  was  treated  with  sublimate  salves,  now  I 
am  suffering  from  asthma  instead  of  the  skin  disease." 

Hippocrates,  the  father  of  medical  science,  taught  already  that  the 
morbid  matter  of  the  body  is  discharged  principally  by  the  skin  which  is 
a  natural  outlet,  offering  the  largest  surface  and  the  least  resistance. 
This  view  is  often  ridiculed  by  the  allopathy  of  to-day,  which  treats  the 
natural  fontanels  of  the  body,  for  instance  eczema,  ulcers,  hemorrhoids, 

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sweating  or  open  feet,  etc.,  as  local  diseases.  But  the  natural  method  of 
healing,  knowing  that  such  symptoms  have  a  deeper  cause  and  that  they 
really  are  the  action  of  the  vital  force  to  expel  impurities  from  the  sys- 
tem, always  assists  nature  in  her  well-meant  efforts  by  excluding  further 
impurities  from  the  body:  first,  by  proper  diet,  fresh  air,  and  sunshine  ; 
second,  by  assisting  the  pores  of  the  skin  in  removing  the  bodily  poisons  by 
external  cleanliness  (cold  water),— in  short,  by  arousing  the  self-healing 
and  purifying  principle  which  we  find  throughout  the  organic  world. 

Guided  by  the  knowledge,  that  the  organism  purines  itself  by  tumors 
and  ulcers,  people  in  olden  times  tried  even  by  artificial  means  to  arouse 
the  system  to  expel  morbid  matter  by  making  an  incision  into  the  skin 
and  preventing  it  from  healing  by  putting  a  small  article  (generally  a  pea ) 
in  the  opening.  Such  a  "healing  ulcer"  was  called  fontanel  (derived 
from  the  French,  meaning  a  fountain  or  well). 

The  "Acupunktur"  was  also  founded  on  the  same  principle  :  it  is  a 
surgical  operation  by  which  so-called  "  acupunktur  needles  "  two  to  three 
inches  long  were  thrust  into  the  flesh,  piercing  it  to  the  bone,  and  left 
there  till  they  were  expelled  by  suppuration  ;  usually  from  one  to  five 
needles  were  applied.  The  application  of  the  acupunktur,  however,  was 
considered  as  somewhat  too  cruel  for  man  and  was  therefore  confined, 
almost  from  its  beginning,  to  veterinary  surgery. 

A  somewhat  milder  form  of  this  treatment  is  the  Baunscheidtisntus 
which  by  means  of  violent  irritation  of  the  skin  tries  to  eliminate  the  im- 
purities of  the  blood  in  form  of  small  ulcers. 

The  result  of  such  ulcerations  would  have  been  more  beneficial  if  at 
the  same  time  a  strict  diet  had  been  observed.  On  such  occasions  the 
great  value  of  a  natural,  simple,  and  frugal  diet  is  shown  in  the  most 
distinct  manner,  for  after  every  mistake  in  this  regard  a  change  for  the 
worse  sets  in  at  once,  i.  e.  increased  inflammation  and  suppuration. 

What  can  be  attained  by  strict  diet  has  been  proven  by  the  hydro- 
pathist  Schroth  in  the  case  of  Prince  William  of  Wurtemberg  who  was 
shot  through  the  knee  in  the  battle  of  Navarra,  March  23^  1849.  Under 
allopathic  treatment  the  wound  became  visibly  worse,  and  the  physicians 
intended  to  amputate  the  injured  limb.  In  the  utmost  distress  the  prince, 
who  was  by  no  means  inclined  to  part  with  his  leg,  sought  the  advice 
and  treatment  of  Schroth  and  regained  his  health,  by  a  strict  dietic  cure, 
in  the  time  of  six  months. 

In  the  midst  of  the  cure,  when  the  patient  perceived  the  great  im- 
provement in  his  condition,  he  suggested  to  the  physician  that  such  a 
strict  diet  as  dry  bread  and  fruit  was  no  longer  necessary,  disbelieving 
the  latter's  warning,  that  a  change  for  the  worse  would  immediately  set 
in.  To  prove  the  correctness  of  his  views,  Schroth  allowed  the  prince 
to  deviate  from  the  prescribed  natural  diet,— and  the  wound  became  at 
erious  again,  as  the  ulceration  increased. 
Will  allopathy  and  surgery  ever  learn  from  such  plain  facts? 

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Figure  14,  r.  e. 


Figure  15,  1.  e. 


Suppressions  and  their  Subsequent  Diseases. 

Figure  14  r.  e.  shows:  closed  defects  of  inflammation  in  27  penis, 
29  knee-joint,  34  upper  arm,  and  15  shoulder.  The  patient  himself,  a 
farmer,  38  years  old,  who  pretends  to  suffer  from  rheumatism,  says  in 
regard  to  his  case:  "Until  three  years  ago  I  did  not  know  what  sickness 
means."  But  that  he  had  gonorrhea  four  years  ago,  he  thought  hardly 
worth  while  mentioning,  yet  the  suppression  of  this  elimination  of  morbid 
matter  (as  catarrh  of  the  urethra)  was  the  cause  of  the  immobility  of  the 
knee-joint  and  the  pain  in  the  upper  arm  and  shoulder;  there  was  not  a 
trace  of  rheumatism  in  these  conditions. 

In  36  lungs  and  4,f ,  11, -H  hysterical  conditions  and  weakening  of 
the  will  and  intellectual  power,  we  show  the  inevitable  sad  consequences 
of  operations  in  female  diseases. 

21  d  and  e  bronchial  and  tracheal  catarrh  ;  the  sign  of  x  thyroid 
gland  indicates  swelling  of  the  neck. 

Figure  15  1.  e.  shows:  encumbrance  which  we  recognize  by  certain 
darker  places  deviating  from  the  original  light  color  of  the  iris,  princi- 
pally by  the  scurf -rim,  16  decrease  of  intellectual  power,  4^  epilepsy,  36 
lungs  (two  cramp-signs),  34  sweating  hand,  29  encumbrance  of  the  knee, 
28  kidneys  (iodine-spot),  27  anus,  treated  with  salves  for  soreness,  24 
encumbrance  of  the  back.  Concerning  the  encumbrances  of  the  head  16, 
\\,  we  have  to  add  that  they  are  often  noticed  with  infants  already  hav- 
ing a  scurf- rim,  and  they  always  injure  the  intellectual  development  of 
the  child.  It  is  obvious  that  hereditary  encumbered  and  therefore  weaker 
places  are  mostly  affected  by  injurious  influences. 

The  sign  16  we  have  .already  explained  on  page  38  and  in  Figure  11 
as  radii  so/ares,  or  radiant  lines. 

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Fig.  16,  r   e. 


(Natural  Size). 


Fig   17,  1. 


Defects  as  they  can  be  noticed  by  casual  observation,  for  instance 
during  conversation:  scurf -rim,  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  intestines; 
11  head,  defects  of  inflammation;  r.  e.  radii  solares;  13  1.  e.  ulceration  of 
the  ear;  15  r.  e.  pains  in  shoulder,  signs  of  phosphorus.  R.  e.  17,  18,  19- 
20  eye,  cheek,  nose,  mouth,— influenza.  L.  e.  17,  19,  20  eye,  nose,  and 
mouth, — ulceration  and  inflammation.  21  r.  e.  catarrh  of  the  larynx  and 
trachea,  24,  25  back,— inflammation.  26,  27,  28  r.  e.  bladder,  sexual 
organs,  kidneys, — inflammation.  27  1.  e.  blood  and  mucus  hemmorhoids. 
29  r.  e.  inflammation  of  the  knee-joint.  31  and  32  r.  e.  hip  and  dia- 
phragm,— pain  in  the  abdomen.  35  r.  e.  inflammation  of  the  pleura.  36 
lungs,  r.  e.  black  spots  after  bleedings;  1.  e.  clouds  of  creosote. 


Figure  18,  beautiful,  almost  normal  (azure-blue)  right  eye  of  twenty- 
five-year  old  lady;  +++  quinine  color,  27  uterus,  indicating  closed  de- 
fect after  difficult  and  painful  parturition. 

Figure  1(>,  left  eye  of  a  man,  35  years  old.  Density  2.  Blue  color, 
intermingled  with  white  signs  of  inflammation,  still  open  defects  which 
are  about  to  heal,  causing  pains  occasionally.  Catarrh  of  stomach  ami 
intestines,  and  36  of  lungs;  ]\  faintings  ;  II  inflamed  muscles  of  the 
neck  ,    *2  aching   in  the  left  side  of    the  abdomen  ;    weakness  in  the  bark. 

Referring  to  sign  -'7,  closed  defect  in  the  Uterus,  we  will  show  in  the 
following  disquisition  that  difficult  and  painful  parturition  is  always  the 
result  of  a  violation  of  nature's  laws,  and  that  the  views  of  allopathy  are 
nothing  but  a  chain  of  errors  and  illusions.  Here  the  sentence  comes 
true:   "Cursed  he  he  who  relies  upon  men,"  and  it  is  hut  natural    that  it 


is  followed  by  another  passage  which  has  filled  the  world  with  fear  and 
despair  for  thousands  of  years  :  "In  sorrow  thou  shalt  bring  forth  chil- 
dren ! ' ' 

But  with  stupid  and  thoughtless  resignation  the  last  sentence,  trans- 
mitted from  a  barbarous  age,  is  still  regarded  as  "sacred  truth,"  prin- 
cipally because  the  old  methods  of  healing  excuse  their  inability  to  pre- 
vent the  pains  of  parturition  by  asserting  that  "the  pelvis  is  too  nar- 
now,"  thus  declaring  painful  child-birth  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of 
nature. 

But  nature  in  her  supreme  wisdom  has  never  intended  to  make  the 
very  act  of  the  perpetuation  of  life  one  of  suffering  and  fear.  Pain  and 
anguish  can  never  be  the  natural  conditions  of  child-bearing.  In  the 
normal  state  all  bodily  functions  are  easy  and  agreeable,  and  nature  has 
even  endowed  the  pregnant  woman  with  increased  resistance  against  in- 
jurious influences  ;  it  may  be  only  mentioned  here  that  she  hardly  ever 
succumbs  to  epidemics.  It  is  our  modern  civilization,  with  its  perverted 
dietetic  and  hygienic  habits,  that  has  burdened  humanity  with  so  many 
ailments  which  are  never  to  be  found  among  animals  living  free  and 
according  to  their  natural  instincts. 

.It  will  become  obvious  to  the  intelligent  reader  that  all  the  various 
pains  of  parturition,  which  are  commonly  regarded  as  unavoidable,  are 
but  the  result  of  continuous  violations  of  nature's  laws,  and  we  will 
shortly  point  out  the  most  common  mistakes  that  are  made  in  this  respect. 
The  aversion  to  cold  fresh  air  and  the  sleeping  in  ill-ventilated  rooms 
give  a'  wholly  inadequate  supply  of  oxygen  to  the  blood  of  mother  and 
child.  If  the  pregnant  mother  would  take  but  little  care,  she  would  soon 
notice  that  the  fetus  always  becomes  restless  when  she  remains  in  bad 
air.  Further,  the  corruption  of  the  blood  and  lymph  by  meat  and  other 
irritating  food  is  often  aggravated  by  the  excessive  consumption  of 
liquids,  like  wine,  beer,  soups,  milk,  etc.  That  the  corset  is  one  of  the 
greatest  injuries  to  the  female  body  is  such  a  well-known  fact  that  we 
hardly  need  to  mention  it.  It  lessens  and  often  ruins  the  digestive  power; 
it  restricts  the  development  of  the  lungs  to  almost  half  of  the  normal 
size  ;  it  destroys  absolutely  the  normal  power  of  breathing  ;  it  prevents 
the  return  of  the  venous  blood  from  parts  below  the  waist-line: — in  short, 
it  is  one  of  the  principal  causes  of  marital  misery;  but  also  the  infant  has 
much  to  suffer,  and  many  ailments  of  childhood  are  due  to  this  folly  of 
fashion. 

Difficult  and  painful  parturition  can  never  be  caused  by  such  a  mis- 
take of  nature  as  a  too  narrow  pelvis  would  be  ;  and  right  here  we  want 
to  correct  one  of  the  most  significant  and  fatal  errors  of  the  old  school : 
not  the  pelvis  is  too  narrow,  but  the  circumference  of  the  head  and  body  oj  the 
child  arc  too  large  !  The  average  measurements  of  normal  new-born  in- 
fants are:  length  of  the  body,  50  cm.;  circumference  of  the  head,  34  cm.; 
weight,  3000  grams;  yet  at  present  we  find  in  the  majority  of  births,  by 

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the  same  length  of  the  body,  a  circumference  of  the  head  of  35  cm.  and  a 
weight  of  3500  grams.  This  abnormal  enlargement  is  caused  by  an  ex- 
cess of  water  in  the  cavities  of  the  body,  and  the  weight  will  increase  the 

more  the  vitality  of  the  mother  is  weakened  and  the  more  serious  dietetic 
mistakes  are  made  during  pregnancy,  .so  that  the  weight  of  the  new-born 
can  even  reach  4500  grams  and  more.  We  must  add  here  the  fact  that 
the  accumulation  of  fat  in  the  body  of  the  new-born  as  well  as  of  the 
adult  is  by  no  means  a  sign  of  health,  but  a  process  of  fatty  degeneration, 
the  consequence  of  watery  and  insufficiently  oxydized  blood,  i.  e.  im- 
perfectly assimilated  albumen.  All  advanced  physiologists  acknowledge 
the  fact  that  modern  man  takes  about  five  times  as  much  albumen  in  his 
food  than  he  really  needs;  a  daily  ration  of  JO-40  grams  of  protein  is 
sufficient  for  the  average  man. 

The  over-supply  of  nitrogenous  elements,  especially  through  exces- 
sive meat-eating,  will  never  increase  health  and  strength.  How  often  do 
we  see  a  person  who,  according  to  his  own  opinion  and  that  of  his  physi- 
cian, lives  well  and  upon  "strengthening  foods  and  drinks,"  yet  who, 
with  wan  and  pale  face  and  bloated  abdomen,  goes  shivering  and  groan- 
ing through  life. 

Over-feeding  and  lack  of  proper  exercise  are  always  the  cause  of  the 
abnormal  size  of  the  new-born.  The  latter  and  a  too  large  quantity  of 
amniotic  fluid  (the  liquid  in  which  the  fetus  is  suspended)  expand  the 
muscles  of  the  uterus  and  the  abdomen  far  too  much,  thus  weakening 
their  elasticity.  The  consequences  which  then  appear  are  often  danger- 
ous, like  bursting  of  the  womb,  expulsion  of  the  after-birth  before  the 
fetus  {placenta  praevia),  rupture  of  the  uterus;  sometimes  they  are 
molesting,  like  preponderation  of  the  venter. 

There  is  but  one  way  to  ensure  painless  parturition,  and  that  is  by 
living  strictly  in  accordance  with  nature.  Even  if  the  mother  first  begins 
during  pregnancy  to  adopt  a  natural  diet,  consisting  principally  of  fruits, 
nuts,  and  broken  whole  wheat,  she  will  have  an  easy  delivery.  It  will 
be  a  still  more  surprising  fact  to  many  that  such  a  diet  will  bring  forth 
an  abundant  flow  of  healthy  milk  from  the  lacteal  glands  within  twenty? 
four  hours,  even  in  such  cases  where  the  latter  had  been  completely 
dried  up. 

Every  mother  should  realize  that  it  is  her  sacred  duty  to  nurse  her 
child  herself,  because  it  is  the  best  and  most  natural  way  to  ensure  not 
only  the  health  of  the  baby  but  also  her  own  ;  and  all  mothers  who 
deprive  the  new-born  of  its  natural  food  from  sheer  vanity  to  preserve 
their  beauty,  show  not  only  the  utmost  heartlessness  and  cruelty,  but 
also  the  grossest  stupidity.  The  number  of  children  that  in  our  "  Chris- 
tian age"  arc  still  being  murdered  upon  the  altar  of  the  great  moloch 
"  Fashion  "  is  simply  appalling,  and  the  fashionable  hypocrites  who  con- 
stantly organize  sensational  crusades  against  the  so-called  "social  evil" 
should  rather  spent  their  activity  in  another  direction. 

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29 

Figure  20,  r.  e. 


Pair  of  Eyes  of  a  Patient. 


Grey  eyes,  density  3,  surf -rim  above  and  below  the  pupil.  The  man, 
50  years  of  age,  had  open  feet  for  a  long  term  of  years  ;  the  elimination 
of  morbid  matter  in  this  direction  effected  the  improvement  of  the  color 
of  the  iris  from  brown  to  greyish-blue.  By  means  of  erasion,  mercury, 
and  bandages  the  pores  of  the  feet  (29)  were  closed  and  also  sweating  of 
the  hands  (34)  suppressed.  Soon  a  change  for  the  worse  in  the  general 
condition  of  the  patient  set  in,  a  stooping  attitude  of  the  body,  effected  by 
encumbrance  of  the  upper  part  of  the  back  (24)  with  morbid  matter,  was 
noticed,  and  at  the  same  time  the  will  and  intellectual  powers  decreased. 
The  mercury  clouds  in  {$  left  eye  indicated  faintings,  epilepsy,  apoplexy, 
and  premature  death. 

In  this  case  also  all  warnings  from  our  part  were  futile.  The  patient, 
a  spiritist,  would  not  adopt  a  fruit  diet  and  cold-water  treatments,  and 
therefore  the  close  observer,  without  being  a  "medium,"  could  predict 
the  manner  and  probable  time  of  the  man's  death.  If  then  in  such  cases 
the  departure  of  the  beloved  ones  is  lamented,  we  would  like  to  say  to 
the  mourners,  although  our  words  may  sound  heartless:  "Grant  the 
dead  his  rest,  let  him  slumber  the  eternal  sleep  which  redeemed  him  from 
his  sufferings;  if  you  had  listened  to  common  sense  and  competent  advice 
in  due  time,  you  would  not  need  to  lament  now." 

Do  not  misunderstand  our  words.  We  know  to  value  the  power  of 
the  mind,  the  impulse  to  investigate  the  spiritual  life  and  the  psychologi- 
cal phenomenas,  and  we  are  the  last  to  deny  the  influence  of  mental  atti- 
tudes upon  the  body.  But  it  will  always  be  better  for  a  sick  man,  instead 
of  communicating  through  a  medium  with  a  spirit  of  unknown  quality 
and  to  blindly  follow  his  advice,  to  consult  his  own  mind  and  reason  and 
to  adopt  the  natural  method  of  healing:  the  luscious  fruits,  the  cleansing 
water,  the  refreshing  air,  the  enlivening  sunshine, — in  short,  nature's 

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own  medicines  which  she  bountifully  offers  to  all.  It  seems  rather  risky 
to  me  to  follow  the  medical  advice  of  a  medium  of  doubtful  mental  and 
physical  health,  or  to  adopt  any  other  fashionable  methods  of  healing, — 
may  they  call  themselves  faith  cure,  prayer  cure,  or  Christian  science. 
These  methods  may  prevent  the  patient  from  taking  poisonous  medicine, 
but  on  the  other  hand  they  may  be  often  very  harmful  by  neglecting  the 
value  of  the  real  healing  factors  in  the  cure  of  disease.  The  knowledge, 
that  health  can  never  be  bought  by  money  and  wealth  is  too  important 
to  be  lost  sight  of  ;  otherwise  the  danger  would  be  too  near  that  people 
would  live  still  more  carelessly  and  extravagantly  if  they  could  be  cured 
by  a  few  thoughtlessly  spoken  words  and  at  the  same  time  dispense  with 
loathsome  medicines, — a  plan  which  of  course  would  be  very  convenient. 


Figure  22,  r.  e. 


Figure  23,  1.  e. 


Suppressions  and  their  Subsequent  Diseases. 

I.  Catarrh  of  uterus, — sign  of  catarrhal  defect  with  ichthyol  medi- 
cine spot  in  27  right  eye;  swelling  of  the  knee-joint  (29)  follows,  also 
inflammation,  i.  e.  paralysis  of  the  muscles  of  the  neck  (14),  shoulder 
(15)  and  upper  back  (24  ). 

II.  Mucous  and  blood  hemorrhoids,  27  left  eye,  suppressed  by  ope- 
ration, are  followed  by  heavy  catarrh  of  the  lungs  36,  and  asthmatic  con- 
ditions ;  the  right  upper  lobe  of  the  lungs  is  severely  affected,  the  black 
points  being  the  signs  left  after  lung  bleedings. 

III.  Girl,  20  years  of  age  :  eye  whitish-blue,  density  of  the  iris  2-3; 
in  spite  of,  or  rather  on  account  of  the  treatment  by  specialists,  she 
has  such  a  serious  constriction  of  the  esophagus  {esophagostenosis^  an 
inflammatory  and  catarrhal  defect)  22  Kit  eye,  tli.it  the  partaking  of 
food  is  sometimes  almost  impossible,  even  liquids  regurtitate  through  the 
nose.  The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  wonderfully  revealed  the  condition  of 
the  girl,  who  was  a  splendid  model:  in  33  r,  e.,  region  of  the  liver,  we 
notice  an  open  inflammatory  ami  catarrhal  defect  ;  four  years  ago  the 

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patient  had  suppressed  jaundice  by  allopathic  remedies,  but  soon  another 
disease  made  its  appearance  in  the  esophagus  in  place  of  the  first.  After 
a  strict  nature  cure  of  seven  weeks  the  jaundice  reappeared  but  was 
finally  cured  in  eight  days,  and  with  it  the  disease  in  the  esophagus  dis- 
appeared. 

Such  facts  speak  surely  an  eloquent  language  for  nature  cure,  which 
always  looks  out  for  the  purification  and  general  improvement  of  the 
whole  system  ;  but  these  facts  show  also  the  pernkiousness  of  allopathy, 
which  never  cures  but  simply  produces  another  sickness  in  place  of  the 
first  one  which  is  claimed  to  have  been  cured. 


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Figure  24,  r.  e. 


I.  Man,  42  years  of  age,  eyes  blueish-green,  density  of  the  iris  3. 
Right  eye  quinine  color,  spot  in  the  section  of  the  kidneys  (28)  indicates 
suppressed  scabies;  section  of  the  genitals  (27)  discloses  crab-lice  spot; 
in  the  section  of  the  right  lung  (36)  we  perceive  creosote  and  catarrh 
clouds;  signs  of  strychnine;  sweating  of  the  feet  (29)  had  been  sup- 
pressed by  dusting  powder  and  potassium  bichromate,  with  the  result 
that  the  morbid  matter  appeared  in  the  left  side  of  the  body  in  the  form 
of  varicose  veins  and  swelling  of  the  leg;  the  man  used  a  rubber  stock- 
ing, which  again  caused  a  deep-going  catarrhal  defect  of  the  nose,  (19) 
swelling  of  the  upper  jaw,  loss  of  three  teeth  ;  the  poisonous  matter  then 
settled  in  the  brain  (|f ),  causing  loss  of  reasoning  power.  This  man, 
after  experiencing  by  allopathic  treatment  a  continuous  change  to  the 
worse,  also  successfully  used  the  simple  healing  factors  of  nature  and  was 
restored  to  perfect  mental  and  physical  vigor. 

II.  Right  eye  ;  25  curvature  of  the  spine;  this  deformity  is  caused 
in  most  instances  by  an  inadequate  supply  of  mineral  matter  in  the  food, 
a  circumstance  which  always  seriously  injures  the  strength  and  develop- 
ment of  muscles  and  bones;  the  ailment  may  often  be  aggravated,  as  in 
this  case,  by  encumbrance  with  morbid  matter. 


Figure  2G,  r. 


Figure  27,  1.  e. 


Right  eye,  I.  Boy,  14  years  of  age,  has  scurf-rim,  defects  on  29 
leg,  30  groin,  31  hip  to  perineum.  Three  vaccinations  had  changed  the 
beautiful  azure  of  the  eyes  into  a  brown  color,  which  now  after  a  strict 
nature  cure  of  six  months  begins  to  give  way  to  the  original  color.  The 
defects  29,  30,  31  were  caused  by  seven  deep-going  holes,  secreting  pus 
of  an  almost  unbearable  smell ;  five  large  bone  splinters  over  half  an  inch 
long  were  expelled  by  ulceration. 

II.  Man;  35  pleura,  36  lungs  are  the  seat  of  repeated  inflammations. 

III.  27  genital  organs  show  a  two-weak  old  shanker  under  allopathic 
treatment.  In  both  eyes  near  the  pupil  we  perceive  the  most  general 
form  of  encumbrance  of  the  stomach  and  intestines. 

Left  eye,  I.  Uncommon  form  of  long  and  broad  catarrhal  defects  ; 
serious  encumbrance  of  the  nervous  system  and  the  head.  The  man, 
about  35  years  of  age,  looks  like  50  years  old,  mentally  and  physically 
degenerated  by  drunkeness;  impotent,  self-conceited,  takes  himself  for  a 
clever  detective  because  he  was  watchman  for  some  time,  is  a  liar  and  a 
braggart.  The  iris  shows  some  fresh  defects;  injuries  of  19  nose  and 
20  mouth,  injury  from  fall  on  34  wrist  which  will  be  permanently 
weak,  black  sign  between  11  and-]'/,  blow  on  top  of  the  forehead.  Old 
defects  are  shown  in  2b  weakness  of  the  bladder,  and  29  lameness  oi 
the  leg.  Such  signs  of  defects  of  the  brain  and  encumbrances  of  the 
head  like  the  following  are  significant  lor  that  type  of  nun  who  are 
rightly  called  half  fool  half  rascal.  ',';  intellect  enfeebled  by  drink,  11 
vertex,  ]\  cramp  conditions,  12  side  and  back-part  of  the  head  and  I  J 
ears.  The  defects  12  and  13  are  the  most  important  and  striking.  Such 
signs  of  defects  indicate  loss  of  equilibrium  which  is  always  present  if  a 
person  is  stooping  too  much  to  one  side  and  was  operated  in  the  inner  of 
tin-  eai  :  ii  often  appears  as  agoraphobia,  i.  e.  some  kind  of  neurasthenia 
which  make-  people  fear  of  crowded  places,  street  crossings,  etc. 

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Figure  28,  r.  e. 


Figure  29,  1.  e. 


Right  eye,  I.  Right  eye  of  a  lady  morphomaniac.  Section  34  and 
35  show  that  arm  and  breast  are  covered  with  small  boils,  the  abscesses 
caused  by  the  syringe;  the  small  white  rim  round  the  pupil  is  the  sign  of 
the  morphine  ;  in  a  state  of  health  this  inner  rim  of  the  iris  is  of  a  deli- 
cate rose  color.  All  the  following  signs  of  defects  are  the  inevitable  con- 
sequences of  morphinism  and  of  a  complete  disorder  of  the  nervous  sys- 
tem: 13  hissing  in  the  ears,  and  ,12  back  of  the  head  shows  agoraphobia; 
defects  in  ff  sexual  life,  27  genital  organs  and  31  ovaries;  j<t  lack  of  will 
power,  ill-humor,  and  peevishness;  17  sensation  of  heaviness  in  the  eyes; 
19  nose,  itching  and  dryness;  21  trachea  and  larynx,  burning  sensation 
and  weak  voice  ;  36  lungs,  also  show  signs  of  being  affected;  24  and  25 
back,  shows  weak  and  sore  places;  26  bladder. 

II.    29  foot,  shows  carbolic  acid  gangrene  caused  by  carbolism. 

Left  eye,  27  rectum,  indicates  mucus-hemorrhoids,  constipation,  pain 
in  the  upper  rectum;  \^  serious  catarrhal  defect,  the  white  arc  is  caused 
by  deposition  of  mercury  and  has  in  consequence  faintings,  epileptic  con- 
ditions, and  atrophy  of  the  brain. 

In  its  complete  helplessness  to  mitigate  pain  by  the  simple  methods 
of  natural  healing,  allopathy  often  employs  one  of  the  most  poisonous 
alkaloids,  morphine,  by  subcutaneous  injection.  The  nerves  may  be 
•  completely  benumbed  for  a  short  while  by  means  of  this  poisonous  drug, 
but  soon  the  pains  return  with  increased  vehemence,  and  larger  doses 
■will  be  necessary  which  soon  establish  a  morbid  desire  for  the  narcotic, 
thus  enslaving  the  patient  and  completely  disordering  his  nervous  system. 
The  poor  victim  is  then  in  the  most  deplorable  condition  physically  and 
mentally,  almost  beyond  relief.  There  is  only  one  way  to  save  the  patient: 
to  cut  him  off  from  the  poison  at  once,  if  necessary  by  force,  and  restore 
his  debilitated  nerves  by  a  strictly  non-irritating  diet  and  mild  water 
applications,  as  explained  in  the  third  part  of  this  book. 

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Pair  of  Eyes  of  a  Patient. 

Man,  48  years  of  age,  dark-blue  eyes  with  white  spots,  density  3, 
scurf- ring. 

He  complains  of  peculiar  stomach  or  rather  digestive  troubles  from 
which  he  suffered  since  childhood.  The  different  physicians  which  he  had 
consulted  could  neither  correctly  diagnose  nor  treat  his  ailments.  On  the 
other  hand,  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  shows  plainly:  in  10-9  cecum  and 
ascending  colon,  twice  suppressed  scabies  by  which  he  had  been  afflicted 
at  the  age  of  six  and  sixteen  years.  Consequently  the  patient  was  right 
when  he  contradicted  the  physicians'  diagnosis  and  treatment  for  stomach 
troubles,  by  claiming  that  his  pains  in  the  abdomen  only  appear  two  or 
three  hours  after  meals;  the  diseased  condition  of  the  alimentary  canal  is 
caused  by  repelled  scabious  poison. 

In  the  division  of  the  stomach  and  intestines  we  see  the  signs  of 
catarrh  of  these  organs;  in  the  right  eye  the  two  signs  of  scabies  men- 
tioned above,  one  over  the  other,  in  the  section  of  the  cecum;  in  the  left 
eye,  6-7,  the  signs  of  a  dislocation  of  the  descending  colon  to  which  we 
will  refer  later. 

In  the  right  eye,  11  and  ] jj  forehead  and  side  of  the  skull  (temple), 
we  notice  open  signs  of  inflammation,  causing  pains  in  the  right  side  of 
the  forehead  and  making  the  patient  often  despondent  and  angry;  1  1  and 
I  J  (left  eye),  stinging  pains  in  the  vertex  and  dull  pains  in  the  back  of 
the  head;    IT  (in  both  exes)  indicates  that  the  organs  of   vision   are  easily 

overstrained;  18  (left  eye)  gum  boil  in  the  upper  jaw;  L9  nose,  the  feel- 
ing of  dryness;  the  left  nostril  is  like  closed  up;  21  trachea  and  larynx; 
A,  deep  going  closed  catarrhal  debet  (loss of  substance)  at  the  v\n\  of  the 
left  broncliia;  22  1.  e.  esophagus,  pains  while  swallowing  food;  24  upper 
part  of  hack,  sensation  of  strain-  26  bladder  and  28  kidneys,  open  inllam- 

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mations;  in  the  left  eye  signs  of  medicine  poisoning,  phosphorus;  the  de- 
fects of  the  kidneys  are  worse  than  those  of  the  bladder;  29  legs,  frequent 
pains  in  the  knees;  on  the  sole  of  the  right  foot  there  are  two  painful 
corns;  in  31  (left  eye)  we  find  a  fresh  spot  of  iodine,  being  on  top  of  an 
old  sign  of  scabies;  dull  pains  and  unsteady  step;  the  patient  often  has 
the  sensation  of  being  lame;  he  had  received  a  blow  on  the  hip  and  lower 
part  of  the  abdomen  a  long  time  ago;  the  signs  of  defects  of  hip  and  pel- 
vis are  always  nearer  to  the  section  of  the  intestines. 

32  (left  eye)  diaphragm,  and  23  heart;  important  in  connection  with 
the  dislocation  of  the  ascending  colon  mentioned  above.  The  patient 
suffers  from  the  well-known  anguishing  pains  and  oppressions  about  the 
heart  {angina  pectoris).  The  pain,  starting  from  the  left  side,  goes  over 
the  heart  reaching  to  the  left  shoulder  and  can  increase  to  such  a  degree 
that  the  patient  loses  his  breath  and  even  his  consciousness;  the  intestines 
are  pressing  upon  the  diaphragm  and  the  spleen  and  these  parts,  in  turn, 
upon  the  heart.  In  33  (right  eye)  liver  and  33  (left  eye)  spleen  we  see 
the  signs  of  light  inflammations;  34  (right  eye)  injury  on  the  forefinger; 
35  (left  eye)  acute  inflammation  of  the  pleura,  pleuritis;  36  lungs  r.  e., 
closed  defect  of  inflammation;  1.  e.,  deeper  going  open  catarrhal  defects. 

The  comparison  of  the  right  and  left  eye  is  instructive  in  many  ways; 
for  instance,  the  defects  of  the  right  lung,  which  are  surprisingly  large 
on  account  of  the  white  clouds,  seem  to  the  superficial  observer  to  be 
the  worst  ones.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  however,  the  defects  of  the  left  lung 
are  more  serious.  Like  in  all  catarrhal  defects,  the  white  borders  of  heal- 
ing are  not  as  broad  as  in  more  real  inflammatory  defects;  they  are  the 
smaller  the  more  serious  the  condition  is,  and  in  the  severest  cases  they 
indicate  in  some  measure  the  outlines  of  the  organs.  Thus  it  is  often 
more  difficult  to  diagnose  the  catarrhal  defects,  especially  in  the  brown 
eye  in  which  the  lines  of  inflammation  are  of  a  yellowish  color. 

In  this  case  also  nature  cure,  to  which  the  patient  took  refuge,  soon 
produced  the  most  beneficial  results,  and  within  two  years  the  complete 
regeneration  of  the  man  was  effected.  Soon  after  the  beginning  of  the  cure 
there  appeared  profuse  secretions  through  the  intestines,  bladder,  lungs, 
and  skin;  a  homeopathic  dosis  of  "  psora  "  caused  repeatedly  scarlet-like 
skin  eruptions,  while  the  two  signs  of  scabies  disappeared  almost  entirely. 
The  other  signs  of  defects  are  traversed  by  the  fine  white  lines  of  inflam- 
mation indicating  healing,  i.  e.  all  of  the  above-mentioned  encumbered 
parts  of  the  body  are  in  the  process  of  rebuilding  to  the  normal  and 
healthy  state.  The  most  interesting  fact  in  this  cure  is,  that  the  rather 
slender  patient,  who  for  years  had  regular  stools,  now  got  the  most  pro- 
fuse evacuations  for  a  whole  year,  despite  the  scant  cure  diet.  In  the 
meantime  the  outer  appearance  of  the  man  has  greatly  improved;  he 
looks  twenty  years  younger  than  before,  the  bald  head  has  been  covered 
with  new  hair,  the  complexion  became  healthier,  the  eyes  brighter,  wdiile 
temper  and  self-confidence  have  changed  much  for  the  better. 

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Figure  'S'6,  1.  e. 


Right  eye,  I.  15  shoulder  and  34  wrist,  elbow  and  upper  arm  show 
signs  of  dislocation  and  strain  in  these  parts,  contracted  by  stopping  a 
frightened  horse. 

II.  17  eye,  deep-going  catarrhal  defect,  wasting  (atrophy)  of  the 
optical  nerve;  the  patient  had  suffered  from  influenza  which  was  treated 
— or  rather  maltreated — with  antipyrin,  etc.;  the  following  vehement 
inflammation  of  the  eyes  had  been  also  suppressed  by  a  specialist,  and  the 
result  of  such  an  irrational  treatment  is  then — an  incurable  case! 

Of  course,  not  every  ailment  which  is  incurable  from  an  allopathic 
point  of  view  is  also  incurable  by  the  natural  method  of  healing;  and  this 
patient  too  regained  his  eyesight  after  he  had  followed  the  wise  maxims 
of  nature  cure  for  three  years. 

III.  21  deadly  defect  in  the  larynx,  trachea,  bronchial  tuoes;  deep 
black,  also  sign  of  medicine  poisoning  (creosote). 

IV.  24  and  25  back,  inflammation,  pimples,  and  nerve-rings. 

V.  27  uterus;  the  patient  had  inflammation  followed  by  prolapsus. 

VI.  29  leg  and  31  hip,  so-called  congenital  dislocation  of  the  hip- 
bone. The  ailment,  which  is  often  unjustly  charged  to  a  mistake  of  the 
obstetrician,  is  in  most  cases  caused  by  the  mother's  tight  corset  which 
exercises  the  most  injurious  prenatal  influences  upon  the  child,  princi- 
pally by  mechanical  pressure  and  malnutrition.  These  conditions  also 
require  neither  bloody  nor  bloodless  surgical  treatment;  by  a  strict  nature 
cure  they  will  heal  in  a  surprisingly  short  time.  In  this  very  case  the 
four-year  old  girl  greatly  improved  already  in  the  first  month  of  the  cure. 

VII.  35  chest;  patient  suffers  from  painful  swellings  and  two  open 
ulcering  spots;  signs  of  iodine  and  arsenic  poisoning,  nerve-clouds. 

Figure  33  (left  eye),  I.  IS  nose,  cheek,  eye.  Swellings  between 
the  lower  lid  and  the  nose  had  been  removed  by  operation,  with  the  result 

that  tlu-  lid  drew  itself  downward,  almost  inverting  and  Laying  open  part 

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of  the  mucous  membrane  which  covers  the  eyeball.    Defect  2\  is  the  same 
as  described  above  in  case  III. 

II.  22  inflammation  and  catarrh  of  esophagus,  pylorus,  and  stomach, 
caused  by  hastily  swallowing  a  hot  dumpling. 

III.  29  calf  of  the  left  leg,  shot  wound  going  downwards;  became 
very  serious  by  false  treatment  and  irritating  diet. 

IV.  30  thigh;  hard  tumefaction;  sometimes  there  appears  suddenly 
without  any  outer  cause  a  swelling  of  the  size  of  a  dove's  egg. 

V.  31  tuberculous  hip,  sign  of  operation. 

VI.  34  ulceration  in  the  upper  arm.  15  shoulder,  inflammation 
causing  pain. 

VII.  35  chest,  sign  of  operation;  compare  the  deepness  of  this  defect 
with  the  harmless  signs  of  inflammation  of  the  right  chest,  the  condition 
of  which  was  diagnosed  by  the  old  school  as  cancer  and  incurable.  This 
disease,  which  is  nothing  but  the  result  of  corruption  of  blood  and  lymph 
and  suppressed  scabies,  would  heal  in  most  cases  by  the  natural  method 
of  healing  in  the  course  of  two  or  three  years.  More  serious,  i.  e.  darker, 
appear  the  tuberculous  defects,  for  instance  21  in  this  figure. 

The  reports  of  allopathy  regarding  cancer  are  given  here  wholly  im- 
partially. First  we  wish  to  refer  to  the  fact  that  the  number  of  deaths 
caused  by  cancer  has  increased  six  times  during  the  last  forty  years,  a 
proof  that  the  disease  appears  now  more  frequently  and  has  assumed  a 
more  serious  character, — or  has  perhaps  the  dangerousness  of  the  surgical 
operations  increased  ? — Formerly  only  the  directly  diseased  part  was  re- 
moved from  the  body;  deaths  during  or  immediately  after  the  operation 
amounted  to  3  per  cent.,  but  under  modern  surgery  25  per  cent,  of  the 
poor  victims  succumb  to  the  ever-ready  knife. 

In  the  following  disquisition  concerning  cancer  of  the  chest  we  shall 
show  the  uselessness  and  dangerousness  of  the  operative  treatment  of  this 
disease.  The  prolongation  of  life  after  a  so-called  "successful  operation" 
is  estimated  at  from  I1/,  months  to  1%  years,  on  an  average  one  year; 
the  relapses  after  the  operation  begin  already  within  three  months ;  the 
death-rate  in  consequence  of  the  operation  itself  is  given  at  from  5  to  7 
per  cent. ;  the  duration  of  life  after  the  beginning  of  the  disease  under 
allopathic  treatment  never  exceeds  four  years,  death  being  generally 
caused  by  consumption,  formation  of  cancerous  ulcers  in  other  parts  of 
the  body  and  blood-poisoning. 

From  these  figures,  taken  from  allopathic  authors,  we  can  come  to 
no  other  conclusion  than  that  cancer  ought  never  to  be  operated  upon, 
especially  if  we  consider  the  facts  that  only  the  ' '  best  cases  ' '  are  gene- 
rally subjected  to  operative  treatment;  that  each  operation  is  a  blind 
experiment  with  the  vitality  of  the  patient;  that  from  5  to  7  per  cent,  of 
the  patients  expire  almost  under  the  hands  of  the  surgeon;  and  we  may 
truly  say  that  even  those  who  ' '  successfully  ' '  survived  the  knife  are  the 
very  pictures  of  misery,  wandering  in  the  shadow  of  death,  because  we 

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can  never  improve  the  condition  of  blond  and  nerves  on  which  our  well- 
being  depends,  by  merely  removing  the  external  appearances  of  a  dis- 
eased organism. 

An  operation  in  these  cases  is  as  useless  as  the  removal  of  the  appen- 
dix vermiformis  in  the  case  of  appendicitis,  and  every  physician  should 
apply  only  strictly  natural  methods  of  healing.  In  several  instances  can- 
cer disappeared  for  about  four  weeks  during  a  simultaneous  eruption  of 
erysipelas  by  which  some  of  the  cancerous  poison  had  been  naturally  dis- 
charged. This  is  a  very  important  fact  and  proves  that  the  principles  of 
natural  healing  are  correct. 

We  mentioned  that  those  parts  of  the  body  which  are  encumbered 
with  scabious  poison  are  inclined  to  cancerous  diseases;  most  of  such 
patients  admitted  that  they  had  scabies.  Cancer  may  also  be  the  conse- 
quence of  an  encumbrance  with  the  virus  of  vaccination  or  of  treatments 
with  strong  medicine  poisons.  A  thorough  investigation  in  this  direction 
would  show  the  uselessness  of  the  chase  after  bacilli  and  reveal  some  very 
surprising  facts. 

We  regard  cancer  as  a  blood  disease  which  differs  from  similar  dis- 
eases in  the  circumstance  that  the  corruption  of  the  blood  concentrated 
itself  in  one  or  more  organs,  degenerating  them  in  a  similar  way  as  in  the 
case  of  caries.  We  assert  that  if  the  patient  lives  yet  several  years  after 
the  operation,  he  can  live  still  longer  without  it  and  become  well  again  if 
he  makes  proper  use  of  the  time.  The  natural  healing  factors,  which 
will  ensure  complete  recovery  without  the  use  of  drugs  or  the  knife,  are 
proper  care  of  the  skin  by  cold  ablutions,  sunshine  and  fresh  air,  strict 
fruitarian  diet,  and  avoidance  of  all  irritating  and  stimulating  food.  The 
local  treatments  consist  in  the  application  of  clay  plasters  upon  the  dis- 
eased part  which,  in  case  it  should  open,  is  washed  with  natural  cold 
water.  The  applications  are  the  very  same  in  case  of  caries,  tuberculous 
conditions,  lupus,  etc.,  and  they  will  bring  far  better  results  than  the  de- 
structive and  always  fatal  treatment  by  cauterizing,  scraping  and  cutting. 

Unfortunately,  to  the  average  man  surgical  treatment  and  suppres- 
sion of  disease  seems  the  simplest  way  to  get  relief  from  his  pains,  a  cir- 
cumstance which  shows  that  despite  the  wonderful  progress  of  science 
the  majority  of  people  still  live  in  complete  ignorance  in  regard  to  their 
own  body.  Millions  of  dollars  are  Spent  annually  for  the  performance  of 
operations  which  are  not  only  absolutely  unnecessary  but  most  detrimen- 
tal in  their  after-effects;  even  nun  who  are  otherwise  intelligent  and  well 
informed,  submit  rather  to  the  knife  of  the  surgeon  than  to  change  their 
unreasonable  modes  of  living.  In  fact,  we  see  the  representatives  of 
high-life  and  the  crowned  heads  of  Europe  constantly  suffer  from  one 
ailment  or  the  other,  the  inevitable  effects  of  their  gluttony,  b\  which 
they  Strive  to  distinguish  themselves.  Cancerous  diseases  arc  increasing 
almost  proportionately  with  the  advance  of  modern  civilization,  and  it 
seems  as  if  we  were  progressing  in  the  wrong  direction  in  some  respects; 


Figure  34,  r.  e. 


Figure  35,  1.  e. 


Right  eye.  Signs  of  bromide  and  iodine  poisoning  at  Tf  occiput  and 
and  probably  creosote  at  13,  14,  15,  ear,  neck,  and  shoulder. 

I.  |f  hysteric-epileptic  conditions,  while  27  (genital  organ)  shows 
signs  of  perverted  sexual  instincts  and  unnatural  sexual  intercourse. 

II.  13  operation  in  the  ear,  removal  of  the  auditor}'  ossicles;  the 
damage  caused  by  the  surgical  knife  can  never  be  repaired.  The  deaf- 
ness is  now  complete  and  will  remain  so.  The  case  was  simply  this:  the 
catarrh  of  the  ear  was  the  result  of  vaccination,  and  the  flux  from  the  ear 
was  really  a  process  of  purification.  Although  the  secreted  matter  was 
of  bad  smell  and  disagreeable,  it  was  beneficial  to  the  system  and  should 
not  have  been  suppressed.  Instead  of  letting  so-called  specialists  perform 
an  operation,  the  blood  should  have  been  purified  and  vaccination  and 
medicine  poisons  should  have  been  removed  by  natural  methods  of  heal- 
ing. Then  the  poor  woman  could  hear  now  the  voice  of  her  children, 
enjoy  life  and  the  charming  sounds  of  music.  The  final  result  of  the 
operation  was  that  the  disease  appeared  also  in  the  left  ear. 

III.  14  stiff  neck,  inflammation  of  the  muscles  (torticollis).  15  pains 
in  the  shoulder  and  collar-bone;  now  atrophy  of  the  muscles.  17  and  18 
catarrh  of  the  eyes  and  nose, — ozena,  which  was  cauterized  with  an  elec- 
tric wire;  since  that  time  the  patient  suffers  from  inflammation  and 
catarrh  of  35  pleura,  accompanied  by  the  sensation  of  heaviness  and 
dullness  and  pains  in  the  nipple.  24  upper  back,  pains  in  the  shoulder 
blade.  25  buttocks,  had  furuncles  which  were  cut,  only  to  be  followed 
by  ulcerations  on  both  sides  of  the  body  between  the  anus  and  the  sexual 
organs. 

IV.  29  open  inflammatory  and  catarrhal  defect;  leg  from  the  knee 
downwards  is  swollen  to  thrice  its  circumference;  the  disease  looks  like- 
elephantiasis  and  lepra;  the  patient  has  also  a  hole  in  the  heel  reaching 
to  the  bone  and  secreting  ichor. 


Left  eye.  Iris  of  a  patient  suffering  from  typhoid  fever  at  the  eighth 
day  from  the  beginning  of  a  nature  cure;  the  signs  of  inflammation  in 
head  16  to  12  and  in  the  lungs  36  have  disappeared;  24  and  25  sore  places 
in  the  spine;  round  the  pupil  signs  of  inflammation  in  all  parts  of  the  in- 
testines and  27  rectum,  31  pains  in  the  hips,  32  diaphragm  and  abdomen, 
33  spleen. 

Typhoid  fever  can  appear  everywhere  and  at  all  times,  in  singular 
cases  also  as  epidemic,  and  comes  from  an  inflammation  of  the  mucous 
membranes  and  Lymph  glands  of  the  intestines;  the  fever  is  accompanied 
with  but  little  pain  and  is  mitigated  by  profuse  fetid  evacuations  and 
sweats;  on  the  seventh  day  there  appear  on  the  lower  abdomen  several 
red  spots  like  stings  of  insects.  The  sympathetic  and  central  nervous 
systems  are  simultaneously  affected,  and  while  the  temperature  of  the 
blood  is  increasing  from  37^°  C.  to  43"  C  (9S><9  F.  to  109*_<u  F.), 
bleeding  of  the  nose,  raving,  delirium,  etc.,  set  in.  Typhoid  fever,  under 
allopathic  treatment,  is  a  dangerous  and  murderous  disease  which  has 
brought  premature  death  to  thousands  of  men,  while  others  with  some- 
what stronger  constitutions  survived  and  became  afterwards  afflicted  with 
all  kinds  of  chronic  diseases.  The  violent  allopathic  applications  cause 
ulceration  in  the  lymphatic  system  of  the  cecum,  followed  by  bleedings 
and  ulcerations  of  the  walls  of  the  intestines,  often  penetrating  them.  In 
the  latter  case  the  contents  of  the  intestines  are  evacuated  into  the  ab- 
dominal cavities,  causing  death  in  almost  every  instance.  By  the  allo- 
pathic treatment  a  change  for  the  better,  i.  e.  the  secretion  of  poisonous 
and  morbid  matter  in  the  form  of  fetid  sweat  and  urine,  cannot  be  ex- 
pected before  the  twenty-first  day  in  the  course  of  the  disease,  and  is 
retarded  until  the  twenty-eighth  and  even  the  forty-second  day,  while  the 
always  dangerous  relapses  become  more  frequent.  On  the  other  hand, 
by  the  natural  method  of  healing,  the  course  of  the  disease  is  far  less 
dangerous  and  shorter,  without  relapses  and  after-appearances.  Homeo- 
pathieally  are  given:  aconite,  belladonna,  rhus  tox;  water  applications: 
short  bandage,  whole  and  part  ablutions  of  the  body,  drinking  of  cold 
water  or  fruit-juices  diluted  with  water;  food  should  not  be  given  to  the 
patient  unless  he  asks  for  some,  and  then  only  fruit.  Artificial  nourish- 
ing of  the  patient  will  always  prove  injurious. 

The  deeper  causes  of  typhoid  fever,  as  also  of  catarrh  of  the  stomach 
and  intestines,  albuminuria,  diabetes,  hypochondriasis,  etc.,  lie  always  in 
a  general  morbid  encumbrance  of  the  organism.  We  have  also  explained 
that  scabious  poison,  the  same  as  medicine  poisons  which  have  been 
repelled  into  the  body,  especially  weaken  that  part  of  the  system  where 
they  are  deposited,  causing  in  many  cases  cancerous  ulcerations.  Napo- 
leon I.,  for  instance,  had  scabies  which  had  been  repelled  by  allopathic 
treatment;  he  died  of  cancer  of  the  stomach  only  51  years  old.  In  the 
same  way,  the  man  referred  to  in  Figures  30  and  would  have  had  to  ex- 
pat cancer  of  the  intestines. 

or, 


In  the  following  disquisition  we  shall  shortly  elucidate  the  processes 
going  on  in  the  abdomen  which  has  in  its  cavities  many  organs  that  can 
very  easily  be  injured.  Even  if  originally  only  one  organ  is  diseased,  the 
morbid  condition  will  soon  spread  to  others  and  finally  over  all  organs, 
thus  affecting  the  formation  of  lymph,  blood,  and  the  excretion  of  effete 
matter,  at  last  encumbering  and  seriously  injuring  the  whole  organism. 

As  soon  as  a  yellow  complexion,  or  tension  and  pain  in  the  region 
of  the  stomach  or  in  the  upper  part  of  the  abdomen  appear,  people  are 
too  easily  inclined  to  take  these  symptoms  for  a  disease  of  the  liver  and 
have  at  once  all  kinds  of  nostrums  at  hand:  patent  medicines,  potions, 
pills,  and  all  kinds  of  quack  remedies  which  are  claimed  to  have  helped 
this  or  that  person.  But  the  liver  is  not  the  only  organ  that  is  diseased, 
perhaps  it  is  not  even  the  original  seat  of  the  sickness;  the  fact  is  that  all 
organs  are  diseased  and  that  only  one  or  the  other,  according  to  its  func- 
tion, structure,  and  composition,  is  more  seriously  affected.  The  organs 
of  the  abdomen  are  so  closely  interwoven  with  each  other  that  none  can 
be  injured  without  simultaneously  affecting  others,  and  if  it  should  only 
be  by  over-burdening  them  in  their  functions  of  digestion,  assimilation  or 
secretion. 

The  sympathetic  nervous  system  which  accompanies  every  vein  and 
artery  and  all  the  numerous  capillaries,  connects  all  organs  of  nutrition 
and  elimination  to  a  wonderful  co-operative  system  in  which  the  motto 
rules:  "All  for  one  and  one  for  all."  As  soon  as  one  organ  is  weakened, 
the  other  ones  take  over  a  part  of  its  work  until  harmony  is  restored. 
Thus  kind  mother  Nature  takes  care  of  us,  making  it  possible  to  regain 
perfect  health  in  a  comparatively  short  time.  But  if  we  continually  dis- 
regard her  inexorable  laws,  we  must  finally  pay  the  penalty  with  disease 
and  destruction.  No  transgression  is  too  insignificant  which  by  perpetua- 
tion might  not  have  the  gravest  results,— and  then  people  are  completely 
at  loss  to  see  the  real  cause;  sometimes  it  is  the  devilish  microbes,  always 
ready  to  assassinate  us;  another  time  the  change  of  weather,  and  so  on: 
they  look  for  a  scapegoat  everywhere  but  in  themselves. 

Right  here  we  want  to  point  out  where  most  of  our  digestive  troubles 
come  from.  We  consume  too  much  cooked  food,  eat  too  much  and  too 
hastily.  If  we  do  not  masticate  our  food  thoroughly,  it  can  never  be 
properly  assimilated,  and  the  digestion  is  at  once  hampered.  Chy loca- 
tion and  chymification  of  the  food  cannot  go  on  properly,  and  conse- 
quently the  formation  of  pure  and  healthy  blood,  which  is  absolutely 
necessary  for  the  maintenance  of  bodily  vigor,  is  an  impossibility;  the 
formation  and  secretion  of  bile  is  impeded,  and  thus  the  emulsion  and 
saponification  of  the  fats  cannot  take  place,  a  circumstance  which  again 
causes  a  long  chain  of  digestive  troubles.  The  latter  appear  in  the  form 
of  constipation,  sour  fermentation  and  putrefaction  of  the  food  in  the  in- 
testines, flatulence,  belching,  bad  smell  of  the  mouth,  vomiting,  while 
the  color  of  the  skin  turns  fallow  and  yellow. 

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These  symptoms  are  generally  followed  by  derangements  of  the  ner- 
vous system  and  stagnation  in  the  blood  vessels,  congestion  of  the 
bowels,  clammy,  cold  feet,  pains,  colics,  and  cramps, — which  clearly 
shows  that  we  have  to  contend  with  a  general  morbid  encumbrance  of 
the  body,  nut  with  the  ailment  of  one  single  organ.  Morbid  processes, 
especially  if  they  occur  oftener  and  more  violent,  accompanied  by  cramps, 
are  generally  called  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  the  intestines.  But  just 
because  every  disease  of  the  abdominal  organs  is  the  result  of  a  morbid 
condition  of  the  whole  system,  we  can  never  have  success  with  the  onesided 
treatment  of  a  single  organ;  all  such  measures  may  bring  a  momentary 
relief,  but  they  will  never  be  able  to  effect  a  complete  recovery;  in  the 
contrary,  they  will  finally  leave  the  patient  in  a  more  pitiful  condition 
than  he  was  in  before. 

We  said  that  the  first  signs  of  a  diseased  condition  of  the  body  are 
the  signs  of  a  catarrh  of  the  stomach,  a  fact  from  which  we  can  draw 
some  important  conclusions.  No  patient  can  be  considered  cured  or  nor- 
mal as  long  as  the  iris  shows  defects  of  the  stomach,  even  if  the  ailments 
on  account  of  which  he  began  the  cure  should  have  entirely  disappeared. 
It  is  therefore  of  great  importance  for  the  eye  diagnostician  to  value  the 
condition  of  the  stomach  and  intestines  by  careful  observation  and  com- 
parison of  the  respective  signs  in  the  iris  as  they  appear  in  the  normal 
state  which  is  hardly  to  be  found  in  the  adult  "civilized  man";  only  the 
iris  of  the  infant  born  from  comparatively  healthy  parents  and  nourished 
with  mother's  milk  will  indicate  sound  digestive  organs  if  they  have  not 
been  injured  either  by  mistakes  made  during  or  immediately  after  partu- 
rition, or  by  medicinal  treatment  in  case  of  diarrhea,  or  suppression  of 
skin  diseases,  or  by  vaccination.  Unhygienic  living,  alcoholic  beverages, 
and  especially  physicking  during  pregnancy  and  lactation,  may  already 
produce  in  the  iris  of  the  new-born  the  signs  of  catarrh  of  the  stomach. 

W'e  shall  treat  the  different  degrees  of  stomach  diseases  more  fully 
on  pages  70-71  and  wish  to  mention  here  only  the  first  stages  of  the  de- 
viation from  the  normal  state:  the  section  of  the  stomach  is  bordered  by 
a  white  ring  without  any  other  perceptible  signs;  the  section  becomes 
dark-blue  in  the  blue  iris,  while  in  the  brown  eye  it  assumes  a  deep  dark- 
brown  shade,  showing  spoke-like  lines  going  out  from  the  pupil  to  the 
edge  of  the  ring  ;  such  significant  changes  appear  as  the  result  of  the 
suppression  of  milk-scurf  and  of  medicine  poisoning  (see  pp.  1"  and  21). 
It  will  be  obvious  to  every  thinking  mind  that  a  perfect  and  lasting 
regeneration  can  only  be  achieved  by  such  treatments  which  simultane- 
ously benefit  the  whole  organism,  and  these  are:  proper  diet,  consisting 
principally  of  raw  fruit  perfectly  masticated,  regular  exercise  in  the  open 
air  and  sunshine,  and  mild  water  applications  such  as  we  have  specified 
in  the  third  part  of  this  book.  These  are  the  remedies  which,  if  strictly 
and  perseveringly  enjoyed,  will  not  only  remove  the  old  poisonous  mat- 
ters, but  will  also  rebuild  the  organism  to  linthoUght-of  health  ami  vigor. 

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Figure  30,  r.  e. 


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Pair  of  Eyes  of  a  Patient. 

Man,  50  years  of  age,  color  of  the  iris  in  the  inner  part  dark-brown, 
in  the  outer  part  somewhat  lighter;  density  4.  Stomach  and  intestines 
are  in  a  bad  condition  as  a  result  of  medicine  poisoning;  between  11  and 
12  r.  e.  signs  of  mercury;  36  lungs  and  21  H  r.  e.  larynx  show  also  clouds 
of  medicine  poisoning,  especially  the  signs  of  strychnine;  the  white  cres- 
cent running  parallel  with  the  upper  edge  in  each  iris  is  probably  caused 
by  glycerine. 

12  r.  e.  occiput,  sensation  of  dullness,  13  r.  and  1.  e.  ringing  in  the  ears 
and  defective  hearing;  19  nose,  polypes  removed  and  cauterized;  21  K 
larynx,  inclined  to  hoarseness;  24  pains  in  the  upper  back;  26  bladder, 
operated  for  stone  15  years  ago,  but  lately  causing  terrible  pains,  dysuria, 
sand  in  the  urine;  27  r.  e.  urethra,  a  defect  which  is  in  connection  with 
the  above-mentioned  operation  and  sandy  urine;  27  1.  e.  rectum,  excretion 
of  blood  and  mucus;  28  kidneys,  open  catarrhal  defects,  albuminuria;  29 
r.  e.  leg,  weakness  of  the  ankle;  2()  1.  e.  swelling  of  the  thigh;  31  r.  e. 
pain  in  the  pelvis  and  hip;  32  diaphragm,  pain  in  the  stomach  and.  short 
breath,  flatulence,  suffered  from  inflammation  a  few  years  ago  which  was 
treated  with  ice-bags  and  swallowing  of  small  pieces  of  ice,  applications 
that  are  as  absurd  as  they  are  injurious;  33  r.  e.  liver,  signs  of  catarrh, 
mercury,  salycil  or  glycerine,  same  as  in  33  1.  e.  spleen;  30  lungs,  signs 
of  catarrhal  defects  and  r.  e.  clouds  of  arsenic. 

The  prospects  for  recovery  are  unfavorable  on  account  of  heavy  en- 
cumbrance of  stomach,  intestines  (constipation  changes  with  diarrhea), 
pyloric  system,  liver,  spleen  and  kidneys;  the  color  of  the  iris  is  very 
dark,  showing  also  the  signs  of  extensive  medicine  poisoning  and  inactiv- 
ity of  the  skin. 

With  every  defect  of  the  kidneys  we  find  albumen  in  the  urine,  even 
if  only  temporary.     The  deposit  of  tartar  upon  the  teeth,  together  with 

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the  signs  of  catarrhal  defects  in  the  bladder,  kidneys,  and  urethra,  always 
shows  the  inclination  to  the  formation  of  gravel. 

The  above  defects  accompanied  by  those  of  the  bile  indicate  gall 
stones.  Defects  in  the  pylorus  system,  liver,  spleen,  rectum,  kidneys, 
bladder,  and  urethra  indicate  uric  acid,  rheumatism,  and  gout,  while  the 
fifth  and  also  much  feared  abdominal  disease,  diabetes  melitus,  is  present 
when  this  long  number  of  defects  is  further  augmented  by  those  in  P 
pancreas  and  12  occiput,  a  place  sensible  to  oressure. 


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Figure  39,  1.  e. 


In  connection  with  the  preceding  explanation  we  give  in  these  figures 
an  illustration  of  the  organic  defects  mentioned  above. 

13  to  12  r.  e.  and  1.  e.  ear  and  occiput,  26  r.  e.  and  1.  e.  bladder, 
showing  closed  sign  of  inflammation;  27  r.  e.  urethra,  1.  e.  rectum,  con- 
stipation, piles,  and  thread-worms;  28  r.  e.  kidney,  open  defect  of  inflam- 
mation; 1.  e.  sign  of  scabies  and  medicine  poisoning;  32  1.  e.  diaphragm; 
33  r.  e.  A  liver,  B  bile,  P  pancreas;  33  1.  e.  spleen. 

We  have  pointed  out  repeatedly  the  great  importance  of  the  digestive 
organs  for  the  health  of  the  body  and  thai  they  are  the  first  to  show  our 
deviations  from  nature's  laws.  In  the  following  we  shall  give  a  short 
disquisition  of  the  diseases  of  the  stomach  and  the  intestines. 

Stomach,  intestines,  and  also  the  kidneys  are  those  organs  which  are 
the  most  maltreated  by  the  folly  of  man,  not  the  least  for  the  reason  that 
they  do  not  protest  immediately  by  pains. 

Here  we  can  also  distinguish  six  classes  in   regard   to   the  densiu   of 

the  iris,  i.  e.  in  those  parts  representing  the  digestive  apparatus. 

1.  The  normal  stomach  of  the  perfectly  healthy  man,  which  can 
hardly  be  found  to-day. 

2.  The  slightly  injured  Stomach,  which  is  ill  a  condition  of  light  in- 
flammation.     The    signs    which    will    soon    appear    in    that    case    are    like 

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double  spokes  spreading  out  from  the  pupil  like  from  a  hub  and  are  bor- 
dered by  a  rim  towards  the  region  of  the  intestines.  The  color  of  the 
iris  in  this  section  is  yet  but  little  changed. 

3.  In  the  third  degree  the  stomach  shows  the  signs  described  some- 
what more  strikingly,  accompanied  by  a  change  of  color  into  reddish  and 
brown;  inertia  and  expansion  of  the  stomach  are  now  beginning. 

4.  The  further  deterioration  of  this  organ  is  indicated  by  an  increased 
darkening  of  the  colors,  generally  caused  by  the  various  stomach  medi- 
cines, for  instance,  a  change  into  yellow  shows  quinine,  brown  betrays 
iron,  etc.  The  color  after  the  newly  suppressed  milk-surf  is  a  mixture 
of  white,  violet,  and  yellow,  often  turning  into  dark-brown. 

5.  The  danger  sign  of  this  class  is  the  turning  of  the  spokes  and  rim 
into  the  white  color  of  inflammation  near  the  pupil;  the  more  these  signs 
increase  in  circumference,  the  worse  for  the  patient;  malodorous  breath, 
sour  belching,  and  similar  disagreeable  symptoms  are  now  making  their 
appearance. 

6.  The  color  has  changed  into  dark-brown  and  even  black  shadings, 
the  signs  of  ulcerations,  which  often  develop  from  former  signs  of  scabies 
(see  Figure  30);  the  bad  smell  of  the  breath  becomes  unbearable. 

For  instance,  Napoleon  I.,  as  we  have  already  stated,  died  of  cancer 
of  the  stomach  caused  by  suppressed  scabies.  On  account  of  the  old  and 
popular  belief  that  the  suppression  of  scabies  would  prove  injurious,  he 
at  first  objected  to  the  allopathic  treatment,  i.  e.  suppression  of  the  dis- 
ease, but  finally  yielded  to  the  insistent  persuasions  of  his  environment 
and  submitted  to  the  "cure,"  and  the  consequences  were  epilepsy  and 
cancer  of  the  stomach.  An  epileptical  attack  at  a  decisive  moment  was 
the  cause  of  his  dramatic  fall  from  the  zenith  of  his  glory,  while  the  lat- 
ter disease  ended  his  meteor-like  career  forever. 

In  Figure  38  r.  e.  we  have  indicated  a  contraction  of  the  pylorus,  in 
the  left  eye  a  common  inflammation  of  the  mouth  of  the  stomach  (cardial) . 

In  diagnosing  the  condition  of  the  intestines  we  also  distinguish  six 
classes,  and  the  different  defects  can  especially  be  recognized  by  an  en- 
largement of  the  respective  sections  towards  the  outer  edge  of  the  iris. 

A  short  anatomical  description  of  the  intestines  will  facilitate  the 
understanding  of  the  digestive  processes.  The  alimentary  canal  from  the 
pylorus  to  the  anus,  is  divided  into  the  small  and  large  intestine. 

The  subdivisions  of  the  small  intestine  take  the  following  place  in 
the  key: 

1.  Duodenum  from  8  to  5  1.  e.  The  biliary  and  pancreatic  ducts 
terminate  in  it,  uniting  at  the  same  time. 

2.  Jejunum  and  ilium  from  4  to  9  r.  e. 

The  subdivisions  of  the  large  intestine  are  represented  in  the  key  as 
follows: 

1.  Coeeum  9  to  10  r.  e. ;  about  in  the  middle  of  this  section  is  the 
much  disputed  appendix  vermiformis.      It  is  about  2  or  3  inches  long. 

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2.  The  ascending  colon  lo  to  3  r.  e. 

3.  The  colon  transversum  3  to  4  r.  e.  and  5  to  <>  1.  e. 

4.  The  descending  colon  6  to  7  1.  e. 

5.  The  S-shaped  part  of  the  colon  (  flexura  sigmoidea)  7  to  8  1.  e. 
The  nctuui,  the  bulkiest   part  of  the  intestines,  begins  at  8  1.  e.  and 

ends  at  27  1.  e.  anus.  Of  diagnostic  value  is  also  the  fact  that  in  a  per- 
fectly healthy  state  of  the  body  the  aims  remains  clean  after  the  evacua- 
tion of  the  bowels;  closet  paper  is  therefore  no  necessity  for  the  healthy 
man. 

Completely  covered  by  the  peritoneum  are  the  parts  of  the  large  in- 
testine 9-10,  3-4,  and  5-6,  7-8;  the  parts  10-3,  6-7  are  but  partly  cov- 
ered by  it,  because  they  lean  directly  upon  the  walls  of  the  abdomen. 
The  peritoneum  encloses  also  the  small  intestines  and  is  called  here  mesen- 
terium\  it  contains  numerous  glands  which  secrete  the  necessary  digestive 
fluids. 

The  most  important  process  of  digestion  is  going  on  in  the  small  in- 
testines; the  food  is  masticated  in  the  mouth  and  brought  in  a  more  sol- 
uble form  by  the  action  of  the  saliva;  the  digestive  juices  of  the  stomach 
and  the  small  intestine  completely  transmute  the  food  into  chyle  ^  a  part 
of  which  is  absorbed  by  the  villi.  The  latter  are  very  minute,  highly 
vascular  projections  covering  the  mucous  membrane  of  the  small  intestine 
throughout  its  whole  extent  and  giving  to  its  surface  a  velvety  appear- 
ance. The  essential  parts  of  a  villus  are  the  lacteal  and  blood  vessels  en- 
closed in  the  epithelium,  being  supported  and  held  together  by  a  network 
of  lymphoid  tissues.  The  number  of  the  villi  from  which  the  chyle  is 
carried  to  the  thoracic  duct  by  the  lacteals  is  estimated  at  about  four  mil- 
lions; they  are  more  numerous  in  the  upper  part  of  the  small  intestine 
than  in  the  lower  one. 

If  the  intestines  are  in  a  diseased  condition,  they  often  contain  worms, 
and  it  is  important  that  we  remember  this  circumstance  in  the  diagnosis. 

The  small  intestine,  especially  the  duodenum,  is  generally  the  place 
to  look  for  tapeworms,  trichinae,  round  worms,  while  the-  so-called  an- 
chylostonum  duodenale  is  often  found  in  the  jejunum,  especially  in  the  case 
of  worm-disease  which  afflicts  tile-makers,  miners,  and  all  underground- 
workers;  the  most  striking  symptoms  of  this  disease  are:  impoverished 
blood  which  can  hardly  be-  improved,  and  decline  of  physical  vigor,  com- 
monly called  consumption. 

The  rectum  27-7  and  the  large  intestine  7-8,  and  in  severe  cases  also 
in  o-7,  3-4,  and  5-8,  are  the  abode  of  thread-worms. 

Beginning  from  the  cecum,  through  the  entire  length  of  the  large  in- 
testine- the  whip-worms  are  found. 

It  is  well  known  that  the  intestinal  worms  are  not  always  removed 
with  the  excrements  but  sometimes  ascend  in  the  alimentary  canal,  catis 
ing  very  disagreeable  symptoms,  even  epileptic  conditions;  there  may  i  \- 
ist  different  kinds  of  worms  in  other  parts  of  the  body  at  the  same  time. 

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Figure  40,  r.  e 


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Figure  41,  1.  e. 


This  study  illustrates  an  iris  in  the  process  of  darkening;  if  blood 
and  lymph  have  been  corrupted,  for  instance  by  vaccination,  injection  of 
glandular  extracts,  etc. ,  the  inherited  defects  of  the  organs  become  plainly 
visible. 


H\    hi 


180 
Figure  42,  r.  e 


Figure  43,  1    e. 


Man,  32  years  of  age;  very  good  model;  density  of  iris  2-3;  color 
blue,  intermingled  with  white;  whole  scurf-rim;  signs  of  medicine  poison- 
ing by  strychnine  or  some  other  alkaloids;  very  deep-going  catarrhal  de- 
fects in  4-9  and  5-8  small  intestine  and  1.  e.  27  rectum;  in  j^  and  yf  and 
11  reason,  will,  and  memory  are  affected;  21  atrophy  of  the  thyroid  gland; 
35  and  36  defects  in  the  pleura  and  lungs. 

A  typical  picture  of  encephalomalacia  (softening  of  the  brain).  The 
condition  was  plainly  shown  by  the  eyes  of  the  patient,  but  he  was  not 
able  to  report  much  himself  on  account  of  his  inability  to  speak.  How- 
ever, our  diagnosis  was  confirmed  by  his  wife,  an  intelligent  person;  she 

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said:  "  I  became  acquainted  with  my  husband  ten  years  ago;  lie  was  then 
a  sober  and  healthy  man;  eight  years  ago  he  passed  through  a  successful 
tapeworm  cure;  six  years  ago  he  had  inflammation  of  the  lungs,  and 
since  two  years  I  notice  a  steady  decline  of  his  intellectual  powers,  espe- 
cially of  language  and  memory,  and  he  often  puts  his  clothes  on  reversed," 
etc. 

The  old  school  of  medicine  generally  attributes  the  cause  of  such  ab- 
normal conditions  of  the  brain  to  syphilis,  i.  e.  mercurial  poisoning,  lead 
poisoning,  over-work,  worry,  etc.  But  in  this  case  we  have  a  different 
explanation  which  is  confirmed  by  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye: 

The  tapeworm  cure  completely  destroys  the  vitality  of  the  small  in- 
testine 4-9  and  5-8  and  thereby  certainly  forces  the  worm  to  go  off.  But 
such  a  treatment  is  just  as  perverted  as  to  free  a  tree  from  parasites,  such 
as  plant-lice,  etc.,  by  burning  it  down  to  the  ground.  We  always  noticed 
that  tapeworm  remedies  and  other  worm  cures  inflict  the  gravest  injuries 
on  the  alimentary  canal.  By  the  forcible  interference  with  the  functions 
of  the  digestive  organs  the  brain-power  was  constantly  weakened.  The 
inflammation  of  the  lungs  was  treated  medicinally  and  with  ice-bags,  and 
it  is  but  self-evident  that  this  violent  treatment  also  was  most  detrimental 
to  the  brain,  which  is  always  more  or  less  affected  in  similar  diseases  of  * 
the  lungs.  Thus  tapeworm  cure,  medicine-poisons,  and  ice-bags  had 
united  in  bringing  about  the  deplorable  condition  of  the  patient. 

In  connection  with  this  case  we  wish  to  refer  to  an  interesting  symp- 
tom which  appeared  after  the  inflammation  of  the  lungs.  The  man  be- 
came afflicted  with  melancholy  and,  as  in  almost  all  such  cases  of  mental 
disturbance,  he  was  unable  to  shed  tears,  although  he  was  at  times  over- 
come with  grief.  The  symptom  of  "  tearless  weeping  "  is  very  signifi- 
cant, and  we  will  give  a  short  explanation  of  this  appearance.  The 
shedding  of  tears  is  one  of  the  many  qualities  which  distinguish  man 
from  the  rest  of  the  animal  world;  only  in  the  new-born  infant  the  secre- 
tion of  the  lacrimal  glands  does  not  appear  within  the  first  seven  weeks, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  the  brain  is  not  yet  fully  developed.  During  that 
time  children  only  cry,  scream,  or  show  convulsions  of  the  face  but  do 
not  weep.  People  who  suffer  from  melancholy  or  severe  mental  depres- 
sions as  a  consequence  of  an  encumbrance  of  the  brain,  as  indicated  by 
sign  \\  r.  e.,  most  always  lose  the  ability  to  shed  tears.  If  they  suffer 
great  pains,  only  the  muscles  of  the  face  will  be  distorted,  because  the 
secretion  of  the  lacrimal  glands  is  suspended  in  consequence  of  the  affec- 
tion of  the  brain. 

The  lacrimal  glands  are  those  organs  which  in  case  of  great  emotions, 
as  pains,  sorrow,  fear,  joy,  secrete  a  watery  fluid   from  the  eve;   they  are 

also  the  only  glands  of  our  organs  of  vision  and  are  more  developed  in 

the  female  than  in  the  male  sex,  because  woman  is  more  emotional  than 
man.  Nature  seems  to  have  offered  her  relief  for  her  greater  sensitive- 
ness in  the  ever-ready  and  profuse  shedding  of  tears. 

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I.  and  II.,  right  and  left  eye.  Illustrations  of  injuries  caused  by 
accidents.  The  signs  of  traumatic  defects,  i.  e.  those  effected  by  external 
causes,  like  blows,  falls,  stabbing,  shooting,  etc.,  are  going  out  from  the 
pupil,  sometimes  more,  sometimes  less  distinctly.  The  dark  spots  indi- 
cate those  places  where  in  consequence  of  the  bursting  of  blood  vessels 
curdled  blood  has  been  deposited.  The  horizontal,  vertical,  or  oblique 
position  of  these  signs  in  the  iris  corresponds  with  the  direction  in  which 
the  respective  part  of  the  body  had  been  injured  by  the  blow  or  weapon; 
by  this  peculiarity  the  signs  are  especially  prominent,  as  in  35  r.  e., 
thorax;  the  almost  vertical,  short,  black  stripe  corresponds  with  a  wound 
running  near  and  almost  parallel  with  the  sternum. 

I.  Sailor,  25  years  of  age;  blue  iris,  density  2;  stomach  and  intes- 
tines in  good  condition;  signs  of  scabies.  Three  months  ago  he  was  hit 
by  a  torn  cable,  throwing  him  down  and  injuring  him  in  his  right  side 
above  the  thigh;  the  further  injuries  which  he  received  by  this  accident 
are  shown  in  11  vertex  and  top  of  skull,  \\  1.  e.  faintings,  12  occiput 
(signs  of  carbolic  acid),  13  ears,  29  r.  e.  thigh,  knee,  and  ankle,  31  hip, 
32  sides  and  abdomen,  33  liver  and  bile,  34  elbow  and  wrist,  35  r.  e.  .ster- 
num, rips,  and  sides,  1.  e.  sternum,  36  lungs;  a  few  clots  of  blood  had 
recently  been  ejected.  The  latter  incident  is  very  instructive,  for  the 
patient  was  thought  to  be  highly  tuberculous  on  account  of  his  heavy, 
rattling,  and  painful  breathing;  in  reality  these  symptons  were  chronic 
inflammations  of  the  lungs,  in  their  endeavor  to  free  themselves  from  the 
foreign  matter,  in  this  case  the  coagulated  blood,  with  the  result  men- 
tioned above. 

II.  Man,  50  years  old,  color  of  iris  grayish-blue,  density  3;  defects 
in  25  back,  26  bladder,  27  1.  e.  rectum,  28  kidneys,  33  1.  e.  spleen  and  1?> 
1.  e.  heart;  after  a  violent  fall  on  the  back  blood  was  found  in  the  urine. 

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ill.   R.  and  1.  e.:  IT  eye,  18  cheek  and  upper  jaw,  1()  nose,  20  mouth 

and  lower  jaw,  20 d  trachea,  e  larynx.  Both  eyes  had  been  cauterized  in 
early  childhood;  the  eye-lashes  are  growing  inward,  ulcerations  appear  in 
the  upper  and  lower  jaw,  accompanied  by  deterioration  of  the  teeth  which 
are  covered  with  tartar.  The  patient,  a  lady  of  26  years,  extremely 
shortsighted,  reports:  "  Nine  years  ago  I  suffered  from  diphtheria  in  the 
mouth  and  nose;  later  on  I  was  several  times  afflicted  with  erysipelas  in 
the  cheeks  in  such  a  degree  that  the  swelling  of  the  face  completely  cov- 
ered the  eyes.  I  was  treated  with  hot  applications  and  electricity;  since 
that  time  I  notice  a  constant  decline  of  my  eyesight,  and  I  fear  that  I 
shall  soon  be  totally  blind  if  I  do  not  get  relief.  My  disease  was  called 
'atrophy  of  the  optical  nerves,'  and  the  best  specialists  answered  my 
questions  only  by  a  shrugging  of  the  shoulders, — thus  the  nature  cure 
will  be  my  last  hope." 

A  strict  diet  and  water  cure  again  brought  out  the  erysipelas,  which 
was  cured  to  the  great  astonishment  of  her  relatives  with  cold-water  ab- 
lutions of  the  face;  the  former  warm  or  hot  applications  had  only  driven 
the  morbid  matter  back  into  the  body.  The  patient  at  once  noticed  an 
improvement  in  her  eyesight,  and  after  six  weeks  she  could  resume  her 
occupation,  while  before  the  cure  she  could  not  even  do  housework. 

With  the  publication  of  this  report  we  do  not  intend  to  awaken  exag- 
gerated hopes,  but  simply  wish  to  point  out  that  the  warm  treatments  are 
just  as  wrong  as  the  use  of  electricity,  and  that  the  diagnosis  from  the 
eye  also  gives  information  in  regard  to  the  curability  of  the  disease  and 
the  duration  of  the  cure.  I  know  of  cases  in  which  only  after  a  strict 
nature  cure  lasting  over  three  years  a  decisivs  improvement  of  the  bodily 
conditions  and  of  the  eyesight  was  effected.  We  know  only  too  well  that 
many  people  who  after  years  of  medicine-dosing  take  refuge  to  the  nature 
cure  often  expect  immediate  results,  believing  that  the  morbid  matter 
which  for  years  encumbered  the  body  can  now  be  removed  as  if  by  magic. 
Those  who  are  not  fully  convinced  of  the  simple,  sometimes  slow,  but  in 
the  end  always  effective  methods  of  nature,  and  still  look  upon  pills, 
powders,  potions,  and  patent  medicines  as  necessary  adjuncts  of  healing, 
should  rather  try  the  latter  till  they  are  convinced  of  their  uselessness. 
I  have  found  that  nothing  is  more  obstructive  to  the  success  of  nature 
cure  than  a  wavering  character  that  lacks  confidence  and  determination. 
Only  those  who  are  trying  to  spread  the  teachings  of  nature  can  realize 
how  often  ignorance,  prejudice,  and  blind  belief  in  so-called  medical 
authorities  must  be  fought,  discouragement  and  exaggerated  hopes  must 
be  dispelled,  aversion  to  the  natural  healing- factor — cold  water — must  be 
overcome,  and  last  but  not  least  how  often  the  false  doctrine  of  the  in- 
sufficiency of  the  non-irritating,  fruitarian  diet  must  be  refuted! 

The  preservation  of  health  is  only  a  matter  of  Living  in  harmony  with 

nature.  Health  is  the  normal  state  of  our  being,  and  we  take  far  more 
trouble  to  make  ourselves  ill  than  we  need  ever  do  to  make  ourselves  well. 


Figure  4G,  r.e. 


Figure  47,  1.  e. 


Illustration  of  defects  which  cause  little  or  no  pain,  but  which  are 
nevertheless  very  difficult  to  cure.  These  defects  have  been  drawn  from 
different  pictures  of  studies  and  were  assembled  in  the  above  figures;  the 
catarrhal  defects  of  the  right  eye  are  still  closed,  while  those  of  the  left 
eye  are  in  the  process  of  healing. 

I.  Dilatation  of  the  'Stomach,  indicated  by  the  radiant  dark  lines 
going  out  from  the  pupil. 

II.  4-9  and  5-8  small  intestine  afflicted  with  tuberculosis  of  the 
peritoneal  glands,  causing  emaciation,  tabes  mesenterica,  a  disease  of  in- 
fancy ;  such  a  child  shows  besides  the  well-known  senile  look  the  still 
more  significant  sorrowful,  sad  countenance,  just  as  if  the  poor  creature 
was  about  to  cry  on  account  of  pains  but  had  suddenly  changed  his  mind; 
the  legs  are  somewhat  drawn  up  to  the  body,  while  the  arms  are  hanging 
on  the  sides  weak  and  motionless.  The  cause  of  the  disease  is  generally 
lack  of  mother's  milk,  insufficient  nourishment  with  poor,  diluted  cow's 
milk  and  artificial  preparations.  The  great  importance  of  mother's  milk 
we  have  already  pointed  out  in  our  disquisition  to  Figure  18,  to  which 
we  cannot  refer  too  often. 

III.  The  defects  of  the  brain  r.  e.  \\  and  \\  owe  their  origin  to  the 
demon  "Alcohol  ";  they  are  nervous  conditions  as  we  find  them  with  the 
sot  or  toper,  whose  system  answers  the  withdrawal  of  the  poisonous  stim- 
ulant with  the  so-called  "appearances  of  sudden  abstinence,"  i.  e.  general 
debility,  mental  depression,  extreme  nervousness;  about  the  same  defects 
appearing  in  long  black  lines  varying  in  width  and  deepness  according  to 
circumstances,  appear  in  the  eyes  of  persons  who  are  addicted  to  the  mod- 
erate but  regular  use  of  stimulants  and  narcotics. 

IV.  Defects  of  the  brain  1.  e.  j|  and  \\ ,  consequences  of  an  occa- 
sional intoxication,  after  the  awakening  of  the  person;  such  signs  are 
also  found  in  individuals  who  get  drunk  at  regular   intervals   (dipso- 


maniacs).  The  defects  in  the  iris  clearly  demonstrate  that  alcohol  is 
direct  poison  for  the  brain  and  the  nervous  system. 

V.  Man,  25  years  of  age;  14  neck;  at  the  slightest  occasion  face  and 
neck  take  a  copper-red  color,  while  the  arteries  are  highly  protuberating 
on  the  neck.  The  crisis  effected  a  bitter  taste  in  the  mouth,  palpitation 
of  the  heart,  cold  sweats  on  the  forehead  and  chest,  accompanied  by  such 
a  violent  diarrhea  that  the  patient  could  hardly  believe  his  intestines  were 
still  in  normal  condition. 

VI.  15  shoulder,  34  arm,  30  groin,  thigh-bone,  and  20  leg;  atrophy 
of  the  muscles,  complete  immobility;  the  leg  is  dropsical  (edematous). 

VII.  28  kidneys,  closed  catarrhal  defect  of  the  second  class. 
Referring  to  III.  and  IV.,  defects  in  the  brain  caused  by  alcohol,  we 

wish  to  quote  a  pertinent  passage  from  a  very  interesting  treatise  entitled 
The  Drink  Problem  in  the  Light  of  Modern  Science,  written  by  Dr.  Otto 
Carque: 

' '  Thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  of  individuals  are  to-day  martyrs 
to  indigestion  and  suffer  more  or  less  from  organic  disorders  of  various 
kinds  altogether  attributable  to  the  moderate  and  habitual  use  of  intoxi- 
cating liquors.  In  too  many  instances  attempts  are  made  to  remove  these 
symptoms  by  an  increased  consumption  of  the  fatal  but  unsuspected  alco- 
holic poisons,  until  a  series  of  morbid  changes  is  effected  almost  beyond 
the  reach  of  remedial  measures.  Morbid  changes  of  this  kind  are  fre- 
quently going  on  until  such  a  debilitated  state  of  the  system  is  produced 
as  to  terminate  on  some  critical  occasion  in  a  complete  collapse  or  sudden 
death. 

"  These  observations  can  be  made  with  the  stronger  as  well  as  with 
the  lighter  drinks  containing  only  a  small  percentage  of  alcohol.  The 
great  affinity  of  the  latter  for  water  always  causes  the  red  blood-corpuscles 
to  part  with  a  portion  of  this  liquid;  it  coagulates  the  febrin  of  the  blood, 
thus  preventing  its  proper  circulation  and  impairing  nutrition,  at  the 
same  time  laying  slowly  the  foundation  for  diseases.  Moreover,  alcohol 
becomes  particularly  injurious  to  those  tissues  and  organs  which  are 
largely  composed  of  acqueous  and  albuminous  matter,  as  the  brain  and 
its  nerve-centres. 

"  France,  the  greatest  wine  producing  country  on  earth,  furnishes  a 
warning  example  in  regard  to  those  facts.  The  French  people  are  not 
drunkards.  You  may  travel  all  day  in  France  without  finding  a  drunken 
man.  The  sot  is  a  rare  sight  in  France.  And  yet  for  continuous  '  re- 
spectable' alcoholism,  the  screwing  up  of  the  nerves  day  and  night  all 
the  year  around,  France  stands  at  the  head  of  all  other  nations. 

"And  what  has  the  habit  done  for  France  ?  France  where  drunkards 
are  almost  unknown,  where  a  sot  is  a  living  curiosity,  where  scarcely  any 
one  drinks  to  excess,  but  where  nearly  every  one  drinks  moderately? 
The  answer  can  be  given  in  few  words:  it  has  inflicted  upon  that  nation 
tuberculosis,  epilepsy,  and  insanity. 

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"One  of  the  most  distinguished  Frenchmen,  M.  Mesureur,  Director 
of  the  Department  of  Charities  of  Paris,  recently  exposed  these  effects  of 
alcololism  in  a  report  which  has  been  confirmed  by  the  government  in 
every  particular.  As  a  result  the  '  Council  of  Investigation  for  the  Pro- 
motion of  the  Public  Welfare,'  issued  the  following  poster  now  displayed 
all  over  France: 

" 'Alcoholism  is  chronic  poisoning,  resulting  from  the  constant  use 
of  alcohol,  even  if  it  does  not  produce  drunkenness. 

"  'It  is  an  error  to  say  that  alcohol  is  a  necessity  to  the  man  who 
has  to  do  hard  work,  or  that  it  restores  strength. 

"'The  artificial  stimulation  which  it  produces  soon  gives  way  to 
exhaustion  and  nervous  depression.  Alcohol  is  good  for  nobody  but 
works  harm  to  everybody. 

"  'Alcoholism  produces  the  most  varied  and  fatal  diseases  of  the 
stomach  and  liver,  paralysis,  dropsy,  and  madness.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
frequent  causes  of  tuberculosis. 

"'Lastly,  it  aggravates  and  enhances  all  acute  diseases,  typhoid 
fever,  pneumonia,  erysipelas. 

"  'These  diseases  attack  soD'er  persons  only  in  a  mild  degree,  while 
they  quickly  do  away  with  the  man  who  drinks  alcohol. 

' '  '  The  sins  of  parents  against  the  laws  of  health  visit  their  offspring. 
If  the  children  survive  the  first  months  of  their  lives,  they  are  threatened 
with  imbecility  or  epilepsy,  or  death  takes  them  away  a  little  later  by 
such  diseases  as  meningitis  or  consumption. 

"  'Alcoholism  is  one  of  the  most  terrible  plagues  for  the  individual 
health,  the  happiness  of  the  home,  and  the  prosperity  of  the  nation.' — 

"Another  circumstance  which  speaks  loudly  against  the  use  of  alco- 
holic beverages  must  here  also  be  mentioned.  Statistics  prove  that  the 
greatest  mortality  which  results  from  the  use  of  intoxicating  liquors  is  found 
among  the  moderate  but  steady  drinkers.  The  drunkard,  after  his  sprees, 
usually  has  seasons  of  abstinence  during  which  he  has  a  chance  to  recu- 
perate or  regain  strength  and  vigor,  and  consequently  drunkards  often 
live  to  an  advanced  age ;  but  the  steady  drinker  has  no  such  seasons  of 
rest,  and  his  face,  by  its  almost  constantly  congested  appearance,  shows 
the  condition  of  his  internal  organs;  alcohol  paralyzes  the  minute  capil- 
lary vessels  throughout  the  body  and  fills  them  with  blood  which  pro- 
duces redness  in  the  face  and  a  sensation  of  warmth.  The  constant  state 
of  congestion  of  these  minute  vessels  which  results  from  regular,  mode- 
rate drinking  interferes  very  seriously  with  the  process  of  purification 
and  renewal  of  all  the  structures  of  the  body.  As  a  result,  while  some 
drinkers  die  from  drunkenness,  many  more  die  from  apoplexy,  paralysis, 
laryngitis  and  bronchitis,  heart  failure,  fatty  degeneration  of  the  heart, 
diseases  of  the  stomach  and  liver,  Bright' s  disease  of  the  kidneys,  and 
especially  from  the  inability  either  to  resist  or  overcome  epidemics,  con- 
tagious or  inflammatory  diseases  or  even  accidental  injuries." 

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Figure  48,  r.  e. 


Figure  49,  1.  e. 


It  was  exceedingly  difficult  to  diagnose  definitely  and  exactly  in  this 
case.  The  sick  person  is  a  practicing  physician  himself,  40  years  old,  of 
vigorous  constitution,  rather  corpulent  and  of  a  lymphatic  temperament; 
the  whole  outer  part  of  the  iris  is  covered  with  a  substance  that  looks 
like  beaten  albumen.  The  ground-color  of  the  iris  was  originally  blue 
but  looks  greenish  now;  this  change  is  always  caused  by  a  deterioration 
of  lymph  and  blood,  indicated  by  a  yellow  discoloration  turning  the  blue 
eye  greenish  and  the  brown  eye  still  darker.  Scurf -rim,  and  next  to  it  a 
broad  and  perfectly  closed  white  ring  (anulus  senilis:'),  the  sign  of  prema- 
ture age.  Between  the  latter  and  the  pupil  we  perceive  a  smaller,  almost 
closed  white  circle,  which  indicates  the  presence  of  glycerine  or  salicylic 
acid  in  the  system;  signs  of  dilatation  of  the  stomach  and  lead-color 
caused  by  excessive  beer-drinking;  a  number  of  inflammatory  defects  are 
also  shown. 

However,  the  man  is  now  well  again  after  having  lived  hygienically 
for  a  long  time,  so  that  the  defects  have  lost  their  former  catarrhal  char- 
acter and  begin  to  ache  again,  a  sign  that  the  system  is  discharging  the 
morbid  matter  which  had  accumulated  for  years. 

11  and  12  1.  e.  vertex,  forgetfulness  and  pains  in  the  occiput.  14 
r.  e.  neck,  occasionally  swollen;  15  shoulder;  17  eyes,  eyelashes  falling 
out;  the  eyelids  are  suppurating,  the  consequence  of  scrofulous  deteriora- 
tion of  the  blood  since  infancy;  they  had  been  cauterized,  a  sad  remem- 
brance of  his  childhood;  19  nose;  21  1.  e.  trachea,  shows  sign  of  iodine; 
24  upper  part  of  the  back  where  some  time  ago  a  crisis  appeared  in  the 
form  of  furuncles;  the  patient  still  has  itching  accompanied  by  small 
boils  from  time  to  time;  on  this  part  the  body  is  especially  inclined  to 
eliminate  morbid  matter;  26  1.  e.  bladder,  iodine  spot;  27  1.  e.  rectum, 
constipation;  28  r.  e.  kidneys,  sign  of  iodine;  30  hi]);  31  groin,  feels  pain 
in  getting  Up  from  bed;  33  r.  e.  liver  and  1.  e.  spleen  also  show  iodine; 
35  ribs;   36  catarrh  of  the  lungs. 

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The  prospects  in  this  case,  however,  are  very  favorable,  especially 
as  the  patient  has  common  sense  and  strictly  avoids  all  medicine  poisons. 
Of  the  crises  which  he  has  to  expect  the  most  painful  will  be  a  violent 
diarrhea,  the  most  disagreeable  hemorrhoids  (see  encumbrance  of  the 
stomach,  intestines,  rectum,  kidneys — the  .pyloric  system).  The  activity 
of  the  skin  is  good,  notwithstanding  the  scurf-rim,  and  thus  the  defects 
which  the  moderate  but  regular  use  of  even  light  alcoholic  drinks  had 
caused  will  heal  more  easily  under  a  wise  and  hygienic  method  of  living. 
The  longest  time  in  the  cure  will  require  the  defects  of  the  eyelids,  the 
consequence  of  the  fatal  operations  which  his  parents,  misguided  by  the 
errors  of  allopathy,  had  performed  on  him. 

We  shall  speak  more  fully  of  lung  diseases  on  page  84,  but  wish  to 
make  here  a  few  diagnostic  remarks.  The  defects  of  the  superior  lobes  of 
the  lungs  are  generally  more  serious  and  assume  the  character  of  catarrhal 
defects;  thus  the  signs  after  lung  bleedings  are  mostly  found  in  the  upper 
sections  of  the  lungs,  wdiile  the  inflammatory  defects  are  generally  found 
in  the  inferior  lobes  from  which  all  inflammations  originate.  They  mostly 
begin  at  the  roots  of  the  lungs,  i.  e.  that  place  where  the}7  make  a  cavity 
for  the  bronchial  tubes  and  the  pulmonary  artery  and  veins. 

This  case  teaches  in  the  plainest  manner  that  it  is  the  duty  of  all 
parents  to  study  the  laws  of  nature  and  live  according  to  them,  thus 
securing  not  only  their  own  health  and  happiness,  but  also  that  of  their 
offspring.  It  is  the  sins  of  the  parents  that  are  inevitably  transmitted  to 
their  children,  and  those  who  intend  to  beget  new  life  should  first  of  all 
make  an  attempt  at  self-reform  and  thus  save  themselves  and  their  chil- 
dren unnecessary  sorrow,  suffering,  disease,  and  an  early  grave.  Rather 
bequeath  your  children  less  money  but  full  physical  and  mental  vigor. 
The  education  of  such  children  will  be  an  easy  task,  because  they  will 
know  how  to  govern  themselves.  Then  brutality,  immorality,  crime  and 
all  the  animal  passions  will  give  way  to  a  reign  of  commen  sense  and  jus- 
tice, without  the  enactment  of  special  legislative  measures.  Then  the 
dissensions  and  iniquities  of  our  much-praised  civilization  and  the  still 
ruling  dead  doctrines  transmitted  to  us  from  a  dark  and  barbarous  age 
will  disappear  before  the  enlightening,  enlivening  teachings  of  Nature, 
like  the  shadows  of  a  dark  and  dreary  night  vanish  before  the  radiance  of 
the  heavenly  light. 

All  the  social  and  economical  problems  which  agitate  and  disturb  the 
wTorld  to-day  will  be  solved  perfectly  and  permanently  when  man  comes 
to  the  comprehension  of  the  great  truth  that  harmony,  health,  and  pros- 
perity can  only  be  secured  by  individual  effort  and  reform;  that  the  high- 
est aim  in  our  life  must  be  the  development  and  improvement  of  our 
physical  and  mental  powers  and  strength.  Only  thus  we  shall  ever  be 
able  to  inaugurate  a  new  era  in  the  evolution  of  mankind,  characterized 
by  the  highest  functions  of  the  human  mind:  perfect  knowledge,  fully 
developed  consciousness,  and  the  moral  activity  arising  from  it. 

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Figure  50,  r.  e. 


Figure  51,  1.  e. 


Illustration  of  painless,  feverless  conditions,  so-called  cold  ulcers: 
they  are  always  deep-going  defects  and  show  a  black  color,  indicating 
loss  of  substance.  The  signs  are  taken  from  different  patients  and  illus- 
trated in  one  pair  of  eyes. 

50  r.  e.  13  swelling  of  the  earlap  which  had  been  frozen  and  daubed 
with  iodine.  14  neck,  hard  swellings,  the  glands  are  often  drooping 
down.  15  shoulder,  afflicted  with  a  sebaceous  cyst  (due  to  the  retention 
of  the  secretion  from  the  sebaceous  glands).  16  forehead  and  left  side  of 
the  head,  light  swelling  after  a  fall.  17  eye,  sebaceous  cyst  between  lid 
and  forehead  below  the  eyebrows  and  swelling  near  the  eyelashes,  some- 
times suppurating.  21  thyroid  gland,  defects  indicating  stunted  growth 
(atliyira).  The  competent  eye  diagnostician  will  frequently  find  the  lat- 
ter defect  and  thereby  the  explanation  for  otherwise  perplexing  appear- 
ances, like  affections  of  the  brain,  heart,  and  edamatous  conditions.  The 
sign  is  distinctly  going  out  from  the  pupil,  sometimes  as  a  hair-like  stripe. 
24  upper  back,  wart-like  elevations  at  those  places  where  the  patient  had 
been  cupped  years  ago.  26  bleeding  of  the  bladder.  27  bending  of  the 
penis  where  it  had  been  operated  upon;  the  glans  was  cauterized;  swell- 
ing of  the  testicles.  29  varicose  veins,  soft  swelling  of  the  knee;  abnor- 
mal outgrowth  on  the  shinbone  (exostosis);  ankle  was  dislocated  seven 
years  ago  by  an  accident.  31  ovary,  catarrhal  defect,  cystic  tumor  can 
be  felt  through  the  peritoneum.  33  abnormal  swelling  of  the  liver.  34 
swelling  of  the  wrist,  tumor  containing  blood  (hematoma).  33  thorax, 
hard  swellings,  pain  in  the  nipple. 

51  1.  e.  -J  o  abnormal  growth  of  the  occiput  (exostosis);  such  a  swell- 
ing leaves  no  hollow  space  but  the  brain  expands  accordingly. 

14  suppurating  neck-glands  which  had  been  cut;  the  shoulder  is  also 
afflicted  with  an  ulcer.  16  forehead  and  17  region  of  the  eyes  of  an  eight- 
year  old  boy.  His  parents  state:  "  He  first  had  scarlet  fever,  then  dropsy, 

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followed  by  an  inflammation  of  the  brain  which  we  treated  with  the  lay- 
ing-on  of  ice-bags;  we  did  not  expect  that  the  boy  would  survive.  He 
recovered  but  slowly  and  complains  of  a  feeling  as  if  the  eyes  were  being 
pressed  out  of  the  head.  Subsequently  he  became  cross-eyed,  and  now 
we  are  told  that  the  boy  will  get  blind  on  account  of  the  wasting  of  the 
optical  nerve  "  (atrophy).  The  origin  and  cause  of  this  disease  will  be 
obvious  to  everybody. 

In  21x  r.  e.,  thyroid  gland,  we  mentioned  athyrea,  now  we  wish  to 
speak  about  its  abnormal  growth,  called  goitre,  also  a  wearisome  dis- 
ease. The  sign  21x  1.  e.  distinguishes  itself  from  the  others  by  the  cir- 
cumstance that  it  is  produced  by  the  accumulation  of  white  spots  and 
that  it  looks  like  toothed;  the  whole  iris  looks  as  if  it  was  covered  with 
soft  white  spots  or  rays  which  indicate  that  the  thyroid  gland  is  of  great 
importance  for  the  functions  of  the  nervous  system. 

The  disease,  also  called  Basedozo's  or  Grave's  Disease,  makes  itself 
noticeable  in  severer  cases  by  the  circumstance  that  the  enlarged  gland 
follows  the  movements  of  the  larynx;  further  by  anemia,  cardiac  palpita- 
tion, and  tremor,  while  the  pulse  ranges  from  90  to  120  or  higher.  The 
ailment  is  especially  characterized  by  the  abnormal  protrusion  of  the  eye- 
balls so  that  the  sight  is  sometimes  disturbed;  the  disease  is  further  in- 
creased by  the  circumstance  that  the  upper  lid  follows  imperfectly  the 
downward  movement  of  the  eyeball  and  contracts  itself  upwards,  thus 
widening  the  palpebral  aperture. 

The  treatment  of  the  disease  by  the  old  school  consisted  in  the  re- 
moval of  the  gland  by  operation,  but  patients  thus  treated  succumbed  to 
an  incurable  mental  debility,  while  the  whole  body  suffered  from  edemat- 
ous swellings.  The  circumstance  that  we  knew  nothing  about  the  phys- 
iological function  of  the  thyroid  gland  did  not  give  us  the  right  to  remove 
that  organ  as  unnecessary ;  just  as  little  as  it  is  justified  or  even  advisable 
to  cut  out  the  appendix  because  it  is  often  the  seat  of  inflammations  and 
we  are  still  in  ignorance  of  its  significance. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  shows  us  that  in  case  of  disease  of  the 
thyroid  gland  we  always  find  in  the  iris,  besides  scurf-rim  and  signs  of 
vaccination,  the  signs  of  catarrhal  defects,  especially  in  the  liver  and  spleen. 

24  upper  back,  some  drooping  warts.  25  lower  back,  two  muscular 
tumors  (myomas).  26  bladder,  defect  caused  by  the  retention  of  urine; 
sitting  on  cold  water  for  ten  minutes  several  times  brought  forth  the  urine 
and  made  an  operation  unnecessary.  27  rectum,  chronic  constipation, 
see  also  defects  in  8,  region  of  the  intestines;  fistula  in  the  rectum.  28 
kidneys  after  the  use  of  turpentine  as  a  diuretic  and  worm  remedy  (an- 
thelmintic). 29  leg,  the  veins  are  occasionally  protruding,  especially  at 
the  ankle,  causing  intense  pain.  31  hip-joint,  sensation  of  weakness. 
33  spleen  defects.  34  arm,  wrist  afflicted  with  chronic  inflammation 
(athritis  dcforma)is).  35  chest,  swellings  from  the  armpit  downward, 
pains  in  the  ribs. 

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Figure  52,  r.  e. 


Figure  53,  1.  e. 


Pair  of  Eyes  of  a  Patient. 

An  uncommonly  and  exceedingly  interesting  illustration  of  different 
diseases.  Lady,  24  years  of  age;  nearly  all  her  joints  have  become  stiff 
in  consequence  of  gouty  deposits  which  are  perceivable  in  the  iris  as 
broad,  dark,  open  catarrhal  defects.  At  the  periphery  are  whitish  clouds, 
the  sign  of  medicinally  treated  (or  injured)  skin.  Color  of  the  iris  dark- 
brown,  intermingled  with  black  rays  and  scurf-rim;  signs  of  mercury, 
arsenic,  creosote,  and  salicylic  acid  can  also  be  noticed. 

We  can  give  an  explanation  of  this  deplorable  condition  which  befell 
the  girl  when  she  was  14  years  of  age,  by  referring  to  the  fact  that  the 
parents  were  sick  wen  they  begot  the  child.  Thus  she  was  hereditarily 
encumbered,  and  the  parents  themselves  admitted  that  she  was  born  with 
blackish  eyes. 

Every  time  the  system  tried  to  purify  itself  and  to  get  rid  of  morbid 
matter  by  inflammation  of  the  eyes,  sores,  dandruff,  head-lice,  catarrh  of 
the  bladder,  etc.,  all  kinds  of  medicines  and  nostrums  were  given  to  the 
girl;  she  did  not  have  any  infantile  diseases  (measles,  etc.),  but  at  the 
age  of  ten  years  she  was  repeatedly  afflicted  with  head-lice  which  were 
suppressed  with  mercurial  ointments.  At  the  time  of  sexual  maturity, 
when  the  body  generally  makes  another  attempt  to  cast  out  morbid  mat- 
ter, slight  fever  and  catarrh  of  the  .stomach  were  also  treated  medicinally, 
and  with  this  last  interference  with  the  course  of  nature  the  foundation 
for  the  chronic  diseases  was  laid.  The  question  how  a  hereditarily  en- 
cumbered person  could  stand  so  much  suffering,  is  answered  by  the  fact 
that  she  was  not  vaccinated;   and  the  reason  why  the  disease  appe  tred  so 

suddenly  and  at  once  so  vehemently,  growing  steadily  worse,  is  explained 
by  the  circumstance  that  as  long  as  in  a  hereditarily  encumbered  person 

at  least   the  digestive  and    respiratory  organs   are   in   order,  the    inherited 

si 


weaknesses  of  other  organs  will  be  little  or  not  at  all  noticed;  but  if  the 
stomach  is  ruined,  the  collapse  is  inevitable  and  the  human  wreck  will 
soon  be  complete.  The  circulatory  and  lymphatic  systems  are  entirely 
corrupted,  the  activity  of  the  skin  has  in  most  instances  been  hampered 
by  the  suppression  of  the  milk-scurf  and  therefore  cannot  make  up  for 
other  defects,  and  the  lungs  can  hardly  be  expected  to  do  almost  all  the 
work  of  the  rest  of  the  excretory  organs  while  these  are  diseased  and 
constantly  more  encumbered  and  paralyzed  by  medicine  poisons.  Under 
such  conditions  it  is  no  wonder  if  the  before  apparently  healthy  individual 
succumbs  to  galloping  consumption,  sometimes  within  a  few  weeks. 

In  spite  of  such  unfavorable  circumstances  nature  often  tries  to  con- 
tinue life  by  frequent  excretions  of  morbid  matter  through  the  mucous 
membranes  of  the  lungs,  throat,  larynx,  nose,  etc.  If  parts  of  this  morbose 
mucus  remain  in  the  organs,  for  instance  if  the  actions  of  the  latter  have 
been  paralyzed  by  so-called  "cough  medicines,"  putrefaction  sets  in, 
causing  suppurations  in  the  viscera,  sometimes  even  bleeding  of  the  lungs. 
Such  defects  appear  in  the  iris  as  black  spots;  the  signs  of  a  deep-going, 
serious  catarrh  are  always  of  a  blackish-grey  color. 

Regarding  the  curability  of  tuberculosis  we  wish  to  say,  taking 
the  different  lobes  of  the  lungs  as  a  whole:  if  only  one-third  is  affected 
but  the  rest  of  Jdte  body  (including  the  other  two-thirds  of  the  lungs)  is 
still  in  fairly  good  condition,  the  cure  is  not  difficult;  even  if  two-thirds 
of  the  lungs  is  diseased,  a  recovery  is  not  impossible  although  the  chances 
are  much  slighter,  for  at  this  stage  the  other  parts  of  the  body  are  gene- 
rally so  heavily  encumbered  that  less  serious  diseases  often  end  fatally. 
For  this  reason  it  is  always  important  to  judge  rightly  the  general  condi- 
tion and  vigor  of  the  body  and  to  make  use  of  the  latter  in  the  treatment 
of  the  patient.  We  ourselves  have  seen  most  desperate  cases  in  which 
by  sound  judgement  and  proper  use  of  the  still  remaining  vigor  of  the 
system  cures  were  effected.  But  we  beg.  our  readers  not  to  take  our  ex- 
planation of  a  "third"  or  "two-thirds"  of  the  lungs  in  the  sense  in 
which  one  generally  speaks  of  a  "  half  a  lung," — the  latter  belongs  to  the 
realm  of  fiction. 

For  those  who  have  carefully  followed  our  explanations  in  this  case, 
a  detailed  enumeration  of  all  the  signs  will  be  unnecessary,  and  we  shall 
therefore  make  only  a  few  remarks  regarding  those  defects  which  are 
more  difficult  to  diagnose:  16  r.  e.  sign  after  accident  (fall),  whereby  the 
skull  was  slightly  injured.  Signs  between  18  and  20:  the  tongue  is 
swollen  and  cracked.  22  1.  e.  (near  90):  esophagus  is  affected,  causing 
difficulty  in  swallowing  food,  a  sensation  similar  to  the  globus  hystericus. 

That  the  medicinal  treatment  of  all  lung  diseases  is  without  any  suc- 
cess whatever,  has  already  been  mentioned  on  page  24.  But  as  these 
patients  are  especially  anxious  to  take  medicine,  we  give  them  something 
of  real  benefit  in  the  shape  of  unfermented  fruit- juices.  The  latter  should 
always  take  a  high  rank  in  the  nourishment  of  the  sick,  because  they 

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purify  the  blood  and  supply  at  the  same  time  the  necessary  organic  salts, 
especially  those  of  iron,  sodium,  calcium,  the  lack  of  which  in  cooked 
and  artificially  prepared  food  is  the  cause  of  anemia,  scrofula,  and  neuras- 
thenia, —some  of  the  principal  scourges  of  humanity. 

We  cannot  emphasize  too  strongly  that  our  success  in  life  depends 
Upon  a  healthy  and  vigorous  body,  and  that  health  cannot  be  attained  by 
specific  remedies,  but  only  by  living  in  accordance  with  the  inexorable 
laws  of  nature.  In  the  light  of  this  great  truth  it  is  deplorable  to  sec- 
how  the  people  spend  millions  and  millions  of  dollars  for  poisonous  drugs 
and  medicines,  pills,  extracts,  powrders  and  nostrums,  only  to  make  them- 
selves still  more  miserable  than  they  were  before. 

Nature  prepares  in  the  luscious  fruits  all  that  we  need  to  sustain 
health  and  vigor  of  the  body,  and  it  is  far  more  sensible  to  enjoy  them 
and  their  delicious  juices  in  their  natural  and  unfermented  state,  than  to 
take  them  putrefied  in  the  form  of  alcohol  or  similar  deleterious  eoncoc- ' 
tions.  Unfortunately  the  great  nutritive  and  therapeutic  value  of  fruits 
and  unfermented  fruit- juices  is  not  yet  fully  appreciated,  much  to  the 
detriment  of  the  health  of  humanity.  Fruit-sugar  is  the  main  source  of 
animal  heat  and  energy,  and  it  is  just  this  valuable  part  which  is  entirely 
destroyed  by  the  process  of  fermentation. 


Figure  54,  r.  e. 


Figure  55,  1.  e. 


Right  eye  I.  ].!  and  13  occiput  and  ear;  the  patient  suffered  from 
catarrh  of  the  middle  ear  where  he  had  a  small  operation  performed. 
Since  that  time  he  has  a  dull  sensation  in  the  back  of   the  head  and  often 

imbs  to  a  morbid  desire  for  intoxicating  liquors. 

II.  \\  inflammatory  defects  and  nerve-rings,  indicating  crying- 
spells.     I  l  swollen  neck-glands.     36  lungs,  show  three  signs  of  scabies, 

has  asthma  like  conditions.      _!  I  K  larynx,  is  abo  affected.      The  last   two 


organs  are  very  heavily  encumbered  and  show  several  signs  of  medicine 
poisons.  The  patient  has  been  led  to  believe  that  his  ailments  were 
solely  the  consequences  of  masturbation;  this,  however,  is  a  mistaken 
view,  for  they  are  merely  a  sign  that  the  body  is  heavily  encumbered 
with  morbid  matter  which  highly  irritates  the  blood-vessels  and  nerves  of 
the  sexual  organs.  We  therefore  have  to  look  for  the  real  cause  of  this 
condition  somewhere  else,  and  here  it  is:  the  body  tried  to  purify  itself 
by  means  of  influenza  and  the  patient  was  advised  to  take  refuge  to  the 
usual  medicines  and  nostrums,  i.  e.  to  suppress  the  vital  action  of  the 
system  by  paralyzing  the  nerves  with  poisonous  drugs.  Indeed,  many 
changes  for  the  worse  and  many  deaths  have  to  be  attributed  to  the  ex- 
tensive use  of  antipyrin,  phenacetin,  etc.,  in  this  disease  which  can  be  so 
easily  and  perfectly  cured  by  natural  methods.  As  a  matter  of  course 
people  must  also  have  a  scape-goat  for  this  particular  disease  in  the  form 
of  a  bacillus  of  influenza,  which  was  recently  pictured  in  one  of  our  lead- 
ing newspapers  as  a  fiere,  thousand-legged  monster, — much  to  the  horror 
of  a  credulous  public! 

It  seems  almost  as  if  people  had  progressed  but  little  since  the  time 
they  believed  that  sickness  was  the  work  of  devils  and  witches;  of  course 
these  emanations  of  a  childish  brain  have  passed  away,  but  they  have 
been  substituted  bj^  microbes  and  bacilli  wdiich  the  medical  practitioners 
of  to-day  claim  to  be  the  real  cause  of  the  diseases.  But  unfortunately 
they  entertain,  as  we  have  so  often  shown,  a  false  theory  of  disease  itself. 
The  presence  of  germs  does  not  prove  that  they  create  disease;  they  are 
there  because  the  morbid  conditions  of  the  body  favor  it,  the  same  as 
carrion  attracts  vultures.  The  impurities  or  foreign  matter  in  our  body 
are  the  real  causes  of  the  disease,  and  the  bacilli  act  in  some  measure  as 
scavengers  which  make  the  rapidly  increasing  poisonous  matter  in  the 
system  innocuous.  If  it  were  not  for  the  very  presence  of  these  germs, 
death  would  be  inevitable  in  all  so-called  infectious  diseases. 

Concerning  the  dreadful  evil  of  masturbation  the  views  of  the  major- 
ity of  people  are  also  much  confused.  The  main  fault  lies  directly  with 
the  parents  who  give  their  children  stimulating  food  and  drink,  like 
meat,  coffee,  tea,  liquors,  etc.,  wdiich  irritate  blood  and  nerves.  The 
only  way  to  avoid  or  heal  this  fatal  habit  is  also  a  natural  mode  of  living, 
and  without  a  fundamental  change  of  diet  all  admonitions  will  be  in  vain, 
and  punishments  wall  but  aggravate  the  evil.  The  impulse  to  masturba- 
tion is  always  created  by  irritating  food,  and  the  disastrous  consequences 
must  therefore  be  attributed  more  to  the  latter  than  to  the  evil  itself. 

In  his  highly  interesting  treatise  The  Foundation  of  all  Reform  the 
popular  author  on  hygienic  questions,  Prof.  Otto  Carque,  writes  very 
pointedly  under  the  chapter  "  The  Ethics  of  Diet  Reform  " : 

"The  perverted  sexual  instincts  of  man  and  their  dreadful  conse- 
quences are  nothing  but  the  outcome  of  his  unnatural  dietetic  habits. 
Despite  the  many  books  which  have  been  written  on  this  important  sub- 

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ject  and  despite  all  the  well-meaning  information  given  therein,  thousands 
still  suffer  from  those  most  fatal  violations  of  nature's  laws,  turning 
not  only  their  own  life  but  also  that  of  their  offspring  into  a  hopeless 
fight  with  misery  and  disease.  Theoretical  instruction  in  this  matter 
may  be  of  much  value,  but  we  can  never  lay  too  much  stress  on  the  fact 
that  only  by  the  return  to  the  purifying  diet  of  nature's  luscious  gifts  we 
shall  ever  be  able  to  start  a  cleaner  and  healthier  life." 

We  cannot  enough  warn  the  poor  victims  of  self-pollution  of  the 
numerous  and  unscrupulous  advertising  quacks  whose  pernicious  nos- 
trums, after  a  but  momentary  effect,  will  in  time  completely  disorder  and 
enfeeble  body  and  mind. 

III.  30  groin,  painful  swellings,  28  inflammation  of  the  kidneys,  27 
genital  organs;  A  urethra,  gonorrhea  at  the  stage  of  becoming  chronic; 
at  B  tumor  of  the  right  testicle;  these  ailments  are  all  of  a  common  ori- 
gin, namely  allopathically  treated  gonorrhea. 

55  1.  e.  I.  |f  and  16,  debilitated  memory  and  pain  in  the  forehead, 
the  consequence  of  an  inflammation  of  the  brain  which  was  treated  with 
ice-bags  and  other  allopathic  applications. 

II.  19  cheek,  affected  with  lupus  vulgaris,  a  chronic  tuberculous 
skin-disease  for  which  allopathy  has  but  one  fatal  remedy, — the  knife. 
The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  indicates  that  the  respective  section  in  the 
iris  shows  only  few  black  defects.  The  disease  was  cured  by  a  strict 
nature  cure  within  two  years.  Professor  Dr.  Finsen's  light-cure  with 
violet  and  ultra-violet  rays,  which  is  now  much  spoken  of,  can  bring  no 
better  results,  and  the  patient  who  does  not  possess  the  money  for  such 
expensive  cures  needs  not  to  despair  therefore;  a  good  deal  of  Finsen's 
succes  is  most  likely  to  be  attributed  to  the  strict  observance  of  a  rational 
diet  and  care  during  the  cure.  Before  Finsen  the  layman  Maximilian 
Mehl  of  Oranienburg  near  Berlin  had  already  applied  the  sunlight-cure  in 
cases  of  lupus  vulgaris.  Such  cures,  of  course,  are  better  than  medicinal 
treatments,  but  we  should  always  bear  in  mind  that  if  we  regularly 
expose  our  body  to  the  enlivening  rays  of  the  sun,  enjoy  the  fresh  air 
and  cold  water  freely,  all  those  dreadful  diseases  will  be  prevented. 

III.  21  E  larynx  and  32  diaphragm;  the  patient  often  suffers  for 
hours  from  hiccough;  the  application  of  a  wet,  folded  towel  upon  the 
abdomen  will  soon  stop  this  painful  ailment;  in  a  similar  effective  wax- 
works tlie  magnetic  healing  if  a  person  lays  his  hands  upon  the  head  or 
the  abdomen  of  the  patient  for  about  three  minutes.  I  have  seen  how 
most  -'lions  cases  improved  at  once  under  such  treatment. 

IV.  25  buttock,  scars  after  a  fall  upon  glass. 

V.  J',  weakness  of  the  bladder  after  catarrh;  the  bladder  had  been 
washed  out  several  times,  and  such  treatment  is  not  apt  to  have  a  cura- 
tive effect. 

VI.  27b  hydrocele.    29  leg,  varicose  veins.    30  rupture  of  the  groin. 

VII.  34  tuberculosis  of  the  left  middle-arm. 


l,»     9h 


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Figure  56,  r.  e. 


Figure  57,  1. 


Right  eye,  I.  Man,  36  years  of  age.  Color  of  the  iris  whitish-blue, 
density  3.  If  hysterical  conditions,  i.  e.  abnormities  in  the  sexual  life; 
was  hurt  on  the  occiput  during  childhood  and  then  falsely  treated  with 
anthelmintics  (cheuopodium  and  santonica)  against  epileptic  conditions 
caused  by  the  presence  of  worms  in  the  intestines;  for  that  reason  and  on 
account  of  the  further  treatment  with  bromides  and  strychnine  the  ner- 
vousness became  almost  unbearable.  Later  on  he  became  afflicted  with 
the  often  irresistible  inclination  to  imitate  others,  see  defect  \};  for  in- 
stance, if  he  had  something  in  his  hand  and  saw  another  person  throw 
an  object  away,  he  felt  an  irresistible  impulse  to  do  the  same. 

II.  18  cheek  (upper  jaw),  19  nose  and  20  mouth  (lower  jaw),  signs 
of  an  entirely  unnecessary  operation  for  cancer  at  the  lower  jaw;  the 
patient  died  after  three  months  on  account  of  this  always  fatal  operation. 

III.  21  thyroid  gland,  iodine  was  used  against  its  swelling;  the  signs 
of  defects  in  the  iris  were  deepened  in  consequence.  Below  (near  90), 
larynx;  shows  signs  of  treatment  by  specialists,  operation  on  account  of 
polypes;  the  patient  himself  brings  this  ailment  in  connection  with  a 
small  operation — removal  of  a  sebaceous  cyst  between  ear  and  neck — 
which  had  been  performed  several  }-ears  ago.  The  patient  is  right  in 
attributing  his  condition  to  this  cause.  By  the  first  operation,  removal 
of  the  sebaceous  cyst,  the  morbid  matter  drew  itself  inward;  catarrh  of 
the  larynx  followed  which  was  medicinally  treated.  The  always  fatal 
treatment  of  so-called  ' '  laryngologists  ' '  consists  in  the  use  of  cocain  and 
silver-nitrate  or  galvanocautery  and  stimulating  inhalations,  while  the 
polypes  are  removed  by  means  of  tongs.  If  in  consequence  of  these  treat- 
ments the  morbid  matter  is  directed  to  another  part  of  the  body,  the 
patient  will  be  relieved  from  his  pains  for  some  time  during  which  only  his 
voice  may  be  hurt.  But  unhygienic  habits  aggravate  the  case,  and  the 
patient  who  believes  himself  cured  after  the  first  small  operations  is  sooner 
or  later  attacked  by  graver  diseases,  like  tuberculosis  and  cancer,  for 

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which  the  old  school  has  no  other  remedy  than  incision  of  the  trachea 
and  insertion  of  a  natal  tube,  and  this  operation  is  followed  in  most  in- 
stances by  a  complete  loss  of  voice.  The  removal  of  the  enlarged  glands 
is  often  immediately  followed  by  weakening  of  the  voice. 

IV.  27  uterus;  the  neck  of  the  litems  has  been  cut  out,  see  signs 
near  the  periphery;  the  other  signs  further  up  indicate  that  the  vagina 
has  been  cauterized. 

Left  eye,  I.  -|-f  fixed  ideas.  II.  }\  physically  fairly  well  developed 
person,  but  unable  to  learn  to  write. 

The  topic" ^abnormities  of the  sexual life"  as  homosexuality,  sextml 
perversion,  etc.,  has  been  made  a  very  precarious  one,  not  the  least  by 
the  stupidity  and  prudery  of  those  vile  hypocrites  who  can  only  make  a 
despicable  living  by  spying  upon  the  poor  victims  of  degeneration.  The 
diagnosis  from  the  eye  clearly  shows  that  all  abnormities  of  sexual  life 
are  but  the  outcome  of  other  abnormities  in  the  mental  constitution  of 
the  body,  inherited  in  most  instances,  sometimes  acquired  through  the 
action  of  outer  forces,  like  blows,  falls,  and  similar  accidents  that  seri- 
ously affect  the  brain  and  the  nervous  system;  but  perverted  sexual 
instincts  may  appear  also  as  consequences  of  falsely  treated  diseases  of 
other  parts  and  organs  of  the  body. 

The  fact  that  comparatively  little  has  been  published  in  regard  to 
these  matters  for  fear  of  professional  spies  and  hypocrites  accounts  for 
the  prevailing  ignorance  concerning  sexual  questions.  But  just  those 
who  are  the  least  informed  and  the  least  fit  are  the  first  to  set  themselves 
up  as  judges  and  to  pronounce  their  sentence  of  condemnation  upon  the 
poor  victims  of  abnormal  mental  conditions  whose  full  comprehension 
requires  a  deep  and  thorough  study  of  the  laws  of  nature. 

Many  cases  have  shown  that  homosexuality  may  often  go  hand  in 
hand  with  highly  developed  intellectual  faculties;  and  while  it  is  likewise 
true  that  many  of  these  deplorable  perverts  commit  suicide  or  end  their 
lives  in  the  insane  asylum,  it  must  also  be  admitted  that  they  are  often 
in  the  hands  of  those  who  subsist  on  extortion  and  blackmail,  and  these 
vultures  with  their  infamous  practices  are  enough  to  drive  even  a  strong 
and  normal  mind  into  despair,  insanity,  and  destruction.  It  is  only  too 
natural  that  the  unfortunate  perverts  feel  themselves  as  outcasts  in  a 
society  which  has  at  best  only  scoff  and  scorn  for  them  and  which  neither 
cares  for  the  causes  of  their  condition  nor  for  human  rights  and  justice. 

While  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  unmistakably  reveals  the  origin  of 
such  conditions,  the  natural  method  of  healing  shows  how  to  cure  them 
by  the  persistent  application  of  simple  and  natural  healing  factors  which 
relieve  from  all  sexual  diseases  and  perversities,  from  impotency,  pollu- 
tions, and  even  the  most  unnatural  passions  which  are  a  stain  on  our 
civilization.  The  natural,  simple,  and  frugal  life  will  be  the  only,  but 
often  long  and  laborious  path  that  leads  to  the  mental  and  physical 
regeneration  of  mankind. 


Figure  58,  r.  e. 


Figure  59,  1.  e. 


I.  r.  e.  11  headache,  radiating  from  the  vertex  to  the  forehead,  and 
-j^  migraine,  incapable  of  any  expression  of  will;  1.  e.  \\  faintings,  incli- 
nation to  aploplexy.  The  patient,  a  fifty-five-year  old  woman,  went 
through  one  of  the  most  severe  crises  I  have  ever  seen:  bleeding  of  the 
nose  (epistaxis)  lasting  from  8  o'clock  in  the  evening  till  2  o'clock  in  the 
morning;  the  blood  came  out  dark,  smelling  badly,  and  mostly  in  clots; 
the  patient  felt  comparatively  well  during  the  bleeding,  in  fact  better 
than  for  a  long  time  before;  afterward  she  had  a  quiet  and  refreshing 
sleep  until  7  o'clock  in  the  morning.  After  two  more  crises,  which  were 
accompanied  by  head-lice,  the  patient  recovered  rapidly;  even  the  hair 
which  had  become  grey  through  the  many  sufferings  now  begins  to  regain 
its  former  blond  color,  and  the  wrinkles  in  the  face  are  also  disappearing. 

II.  r.  e.  13  deafness  after  falsely  treated  scarlet-fever.  14  1.  e. 
swollen  neck-glands;  the  patient  believed  himself  able  to  cure  that  scro- 
fulous corruption  of  the  blood  by  the  extensive  use  of  iodine,  with  the 
result  that  he  died  of  tuberculosis  of  the  lungs. 

III.  r.  e.  18  to  20  cheek,  upper  and  lower  jaw,  pains  during  chew- 
ing, the  consequence  of  mumps  (parotidis)  which  had  been  treated  inter- 
nally with  phenacetin  and  externally  with  ichthyol.  29  right  thigh, 
large  swelling.  The  patient  himself  brings  these  defects  in  connection 
with  the  remaining  of  morbid  matter  after  typhoid  fever,  which  showed 
itself  after  a  bruising  of  the  thigh. 

IV.  20  1.  e.  Boy,  bit  himself  in  the  tongue;  although  the  latter  had 
already  begun  to  heal,  it  was  unnecessarily  sowed.  It  is  a  well-known 
fact  that  of  all  wounds  and  lesions  those  of  the 'mouth  heal  surprisingly 
quick  under  rational  treatment. 

V.  r.  and  1.  e.  24  and  25  back  and  buttocks;  fall  on  the  coccyx  on 
account  of  a  sudden  removal  of  the  chair;  the  shock  was  so  violent  that 
the  person  was  unconscious  for  several  hours  after  the  accident. 

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VI.  Farmer  girl,  16  years  of  age,  underwent  an  operation  for  ap- 
pendicitis eighteen  months  ago;  the  signs  left  by  the  surgical  knife  are 
visible  in  32  r.  e.,  while  the  defect  caused  by  the  amputated  appendix 
itself  is  shown  in  9— 10;  as  another  proof  that  surgical  operations  cannot 
restore  health  the  girl  now  suffers  from  tumors  in  the  ovary  31  r.  e., 
while  in  the  corresponding  section  of  the  left  eye  we  see  the  sign  of  in- 
flammation and  medicine  poisoning.  R.  e.  30  thigh,  hard  swellings;  28 
r.  and  1.  e.  kidneys  show  also  signs  of  medicine  poisonings.  27  r.  e.  in- 
flammation of  the  vagina;  27  1.  e.  anus  whose  defects  have  probably  been 
caused  by  the  forcible  introduction  of  diagnostic  instruments.  26  bladder, 
catarrhal  defects.     The  nerve-rings  are  the  signs  of  menstrual  colics. 

VII.  35  chest;  r.  e.  ulceration  of  the  nipple  of  a  nursing  woman; 
35  1.  e.  defect  caused  by  bruising  of  the  left  side  of  the  thorax,  pains  in 
the  sternum. 


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Figure  60,  r.  e. 


Right  eye,  I.  11  top  of  skull,  has  been  injured  by  a  summersault 
into  shallow  water. 

II.  \\  melancholy,  and  27  genital  organ,  defects  caused  by  the  use 
of  stimulants;  prolapse  of  the  uterus  after  premature  births.  12  occi- 
put and  13  ear;  had  a  running  ear  which  she  tightly  closed  with  cotton; 
this  suppression  of  elimination  of  morbid  matter  was  followed  by  the  ter- 
rible pains  of  inflammation  of  the  middle-ear  and  brain;  the  external 
auditory  canal  was  closed  by  the  inflammation  and  swelling  of  the  seba- 
<.-.  ,us  glands  of  the  car,  the  consequence  of  an  operation. 

III.  15  shoulder  and  34  arm,  lesions  from  injury;  fracture  of  the 
-  boulder-blade. 

[V.       17,    IN,    19,    20   eye,    cheek,    nose,    and    nioutli:     the    whole    face 

covered  with  pustules  which  had  been  opened  lor  years  with  a  pen-knife. 
Fresh  si^ns  of  mercury,  also  in  the  brain  at  \\  near  the  periphery  of  the 
iris;  the  patient  is  dominated  by  avarice  and  depravity. 

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V.  24  and  25  curvature  of  the  spine  and  shoulder-blade,  and  35 
chest;  the  patient  has  been  wearing  an  iron  corset,  much  to  the  detri- 
ment of  his  health.  29  fracture  of  the  knee-cap  which  had  been  sewed 
with  silver- wire;-  has  two  suppurating  holes  in  the  shin-bone. 

Left  eye,  16-11-12  and  36  inflammation  of  the  brain  and  lungs;  we 
found  that  all  cases  of  lung-inflammations  which  we  have  treated  or 
observed — and  their  number  is  not  small — are  always  accompanied  by  a 
more  or  less  noticeable  inflammation  of  the  brain. 

II.  24  and  25  weakness  and  pains  in  the  spine. 

III.  6-7  and  7-8  chronic  inflammation  of  the  descending  colon  and 
sigmoid  flexure;  had  Asiatic  cholera  five  years  ago  and  suffers  since  that 
time  from  stomach-aches  and  diarrheas  on  the  slightest  occasions. 

IV.  27  rectum  and  anus;  the  evacuations  are  very  painful. 

V.  34  wrist,  ganglion  removed  operatively,  tendovaginal  inflamma- 
tion. 35  inflammation  of  the  nipple  and  pustules  near  the  sternum;  pains 
around  the  left  nipple  always  indicate  disorders  of  the  uterus. 

At  this  place  we  wish  to  say  a  few  words  about  epilepsy,  a  disease 
which  is  very  seldom  inherited,  but  in  most  cases  acquired.  The  founda- 
tion or  inclination  to  the  ailment  is  often  laid  in  infancy  already  (see 
Figure  15),  but  it  can  also  be  acquired  in  later  years  (see  Figure  21),  for 
instance  as  the  consequence  of  falsely  treated  inflammations  of  the  brain, 
mercury-poisoning,  alcoholism,  accidents,  traumatic  wounds,  etc.  We  do 
not  believe,  however,  that  the  disease  is  caused  by  other  injuries  than 
that  of  the  head ;  where  it  seemingly  resulted  from  wounds  of  other  parts 
of  the  body,  it  has  to  be  attributed  to  the  medicine-poisons  which  were 
contained  in  the  bandages  and  were  later  deposited  in  different  parts  of 
the  head.  The  rational  treatment  of  the  disease  consists  of  a  very  strict 
fruitarian  diet  by  which  the  morbid  encumbrances  of  the  digestive  organs 
will  be  dissolved  and  expelled,  wdiile  daily  cold  washings  and  air-baths 
will  greatly  invigorate  the  skin  and  nervous  system;  especially  important 
are  cold  washings  of  the  scalp  and  hair.  Under  such  treatments  the 
attacks  wTill  generally  subside  at  once,  but  one  should  not  get  scared  if 
the}r  recur  about  six  weeks  after  the  cure  w^as  commenced.  The  slightest 
deviation  from  the  fruit-diet,  even  the  drinking  of  milk,  may  immediately 
cause  a  relapse,  and  if  dietetic  mistakes  are  made  during  the  time  of  the 
expected  crisis,  the  latter  will  appear  more  violently.  These  periodical 
crises  are  in  most  cases  overcome  in  the  course  of  a  week,  and  only  in 
exceptional  grave  cases  the  attacks  repeat  themselves  more  frequently. 

The  curability  of  the  disease  depends  on  the  primary  cause,  as  will 

be  quite  obvious  to  the  intelligent  reader;  catarrhal  defects  of  the  third 

degree,  consequently  also  medicine-poisonings,  will  heal  very  slowly,  if 

at  all.     Not  long  ago  it  has  been  tried  to  cure  epileptics  by  opening  the 

roof  of  the  skull  and  by  destroying  that  part  of  the  gray  matter  where 

the  seat  of  the  disease    wTas  supposed  to  be! — Patients  thus  treated  are 

incurable  also  for  us. 

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I.,  Right  eye.  Severe  inflammations  at  their  height,  16-11-12  head, 
14  neck,  erysipelas  and  torticollis,  36  lungs;  in  the  left  eye  these  processes 
are  in  the  stage  of  healing  under  rational  methods  of  nature  cure. 

II.  9-10  appendix  has  been  removed,  32  diaphragm,  30  groin. 

III.  31  hip,  pelvis;  so-called  infantile  dislocation  of  the  hip-joint; 
was  healed  by  a  strict  nature  cure  of  three  months,  without  bloody  or 
unbloody  surgical  manipulations. 

IV.  27  sexual  organs  and  26  bladder;  syphilis  in  the  third  month 
under  natural  methods  of  treatment;  the  signs  are  showing  now  the  white 
lines  of  healing. 

V.  25  lower  back  and  buttocks,  bed-sore  {decubitus).  The  diagnosis 
from  the  eye  shows  us  that  this  symptom  afflicting  bed-ridden  persons  is 
a  process  of  healing;  the  much-feared  pains  can  easily  be  alleviated  by 
the  application  and  often  change  of  wet  pieces  of  linen.  There  goes  an 
old  saying:  "  If  patients  wo  suffer  from  serious  emaciating  fevers  (typhoid 
fever,  etc.)  get  bed-sore,  they  generally  recover  if  the)'  do  not  take  any 
more  medicine.  But  if  the  imprudent  physician  tries  to  cure  (i.  e.  sup- 
press) these  sores,  he  will  kill  the  patient."     24  upper  back,  pains. 

VI.  32  1.  e.  diaphragm  and  33  spleen,  frequent  inflammation  by 
which  a  catarrhal  defect  began  to  get  lighter.  Several  years  ago  the 
patient  had  used  iodine  to  reduce  his  goiter,  without  success,  however, 
but  his  spleen  was  afflicted  with  several  iodine  spots.  That  is  what  the 
Bible  calls  "driving  out  the  devil  by  Beelzebub."  The  diagnosis  from 
the  eye  often  unexpectedly  reveals  morbid  conditions  of  the  spleen,  in 
most  instances  deep-going  catarrhal  defects,  but  also  spots  of  scabies  and 
medicine-poisoning  as  the  signs  of  inflammation.  The  male  sex  is  more 
subject  to  spleen  diseases  than  the  female  on  account  of  the  excessive  use 
of  salt  and  liquors. 

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Figure  64,  r.  e. 


Figure  65,  1.  e. 


Right  eye  gives  a  picture  of  devastation  and  misery  as  we  fortunately 
do  not  see  it  very  often.  The  patient  himself,  a  man  of  32  years,  says: 
"I  know  that  I  am  a  complete  wreck,  but  perhaps  the  water-cure  can 
alleviate  my  terrible  neuralgia." 

13  ringing  in  the  ears.  14  neck,  stiffness,  swollen  glands.  19  nose, 
cheek,  neuralgic  pains  in  the  face.  21  trachea,  thyroid  gland,  larynx. 
25  lower  back,  weakness  and  pain  in  the  coccyx.  36  lungs,  serious  signs 
of  inflammation.  27  penis;  the  glans  has  been  completely  amputated,  on 
account  of  abnormal  enlargement,  the  patient  says;  most  likely  it  was  a 
cancerous  growth  of  the  skin  {epithelioma).  At  any  rate,  this  surgical 
interference  had  no  curative  effect.  The  patient,  a  printer,  had  still  been 
able  to  work  before  the  amputation,  but  was  completely  disabled  after  it 
and  died  a  painful  death  of  tuberculosis  of  the  lungs  six  months  after 
he  had  submitted  to  the  knife.  I  do  not  know  whether  the  patient  and 
his  relatives  were  right  in  saying  that  they  had  never  noticed  any  signs 
of  lung-disease;  but  when  I  saw  the  patient  in  his  hopeless  condition 
three  months  after  the  operation  his  lungs  were  already  most  severely 
affected.  Even  the  most  impartial  examiner  of  this  case  must  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  the  old  ways  of  diagnosis  and  treatment  are  unreliable 
and  insufficient. 

A  similar  impression  as  that  of  Figure  64  (with  the  exclusion  of  sign 
27)  gives  us  the  iris  of  one  suffering  from  locomotor  ataxia. 

On  the  other  hand,  we  notice  a  similar  sign  of  defect  as  shown  at  27, 
only  in  a  less  degree,  in  all  who  have  been  subjected  to  circumcision,  and 
alone  for  that  reason  we  must  condemn  that  relic  of  a  barbarous  age  still 
practiced  by  many  physicians  to-day.  With  a  large  number  of  persons 
circumcision  is  followed  by  chronic  nervousness,  while  some  of  the  circum- 
cised complain  of  pains  in  the  prepuce;  others  say  that  the  contraction  of 
the  preputial  orifice  (phimosis)  returned;  still  others  assert  that  sexual 

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intercourse  is  made  painful  by  this  operation.  We  cannot  help  but  say 
that  many  men  have  to  attribute  the  pathological  conditions  in  their 
sexual  life  to  this  artificial  interference  at  a  part  of  the  body  equally  im- 
portant for  mental  and  physical  health.  We  have  nothing  to  say  if  the 
followers  of  a  certain  religion  still  practice  this  mutilation  of  their  body 
as  a  sign  of  distinction  from  other  races  and  beliefs,  but  we  protest  most 
emphatically  against  the  recommendation  of  this  stigma  of  servitude  and 
barbarism  by  the  medical  profession  of  to-day.  In  this  particular  respect 
also  nature  cannot  be  improved  upon,  and  those  who  allow  themselves  to 
become  victims  of  this  foolish  operation  will  always  suffer  more  or  less 
under  its  consequences. 

Left  eye,  I.  44,  11,  |f-  open  catarrhal  defects  of  the  first  class  after 
inflammations;    \l  indicates  giddiness. 

II.  11  vertex;  the  patient  has  the  sensation  of  pressure  from  the 
top  of  the  skull;  loss  of  memory;  -}f-  dullness  of  the  intellectual  powers. 

III.  13  ears;  hard  of  hearing  after  measles. 

IV.  17  eye,  cataract  (opacity  of  the  crystalline  lens);  the  sign 
shows  only  little  of  black  color.  The  patient  himself  brings  his  ailment 
in  connection  with  the  wrongly  treated  sweating  of  his  feet.  We  cannot 
warn  enough  of  the  dangerous  practice  of  suppressing  with  salves  or 
powders  the  increased  activity  of  the  sweat-glands  of  the  feet,  which  is 
always  a  sign  that  the  body  is  heavily  encumbered  with  morbid  matter. 
Besides  recommending  daily  cold  washings  of  the  feet  and  barefoot-goiu- 
as  often  as  possible,  at  home  or  out-doors,  we  cannot  lay  too  much  stress 
upon  the  adoption  of  a  rational  diet.  Irritating  food,  alcoholic  beverages 
and  other  stimulants  and  narcotics  weaken  especially  the  depurative 
organs,  and  the  skin  must  therefore  perforin  a  part  of  their  functions. 
We  should  always  look  out,  therefore,  for  the  real  cause  of  the  evil  ami 
not  unwisely  suppress  the  external  symptoms,  just  as  little  as  we  would 
shut  up  tightly  the  windows  of  an  over-crowded  room. 

A*.      28  open  defect  of  the  kidneys,  inflammation  and  catarrh. 

VI.  31  ovary;  signs  of  inflammation  and  eramp-rin<;s. 

VII.  36  lungs;  superior  lobe  is  most  severely  affected,  while  the 
inferior  lobe  shows  more  the  signs  of  inflammation;  little  hope  for  re- 
covery. 

The  circumstance  that  photography  cannot  be  successfully  employed 
by  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  because  the  different  colors  cannot  be 
reproduced,  makes  an  exact  representation  of  the  defects  ^i  the  brain 
doubly  difficult.  The  reproduction  by  drawing  is  no  easy  task  for  the 
student;  but  the  most  difficult  part  of  the  practical  diagnosis  always  is  to 
draw  the  right  conclusions  in  such  cases.  Here  the  ability,  practical 
knowledge,  and  keen  perception  of  the  eye-diagnostician  are  put  to  a  cru- 
(  ial  test.  Just  because  the  si-us  of  these  defects  are  of  the  greatest  im- 
portance for  the-  practical  diagnosis  and  give  often  unexpected  disclosures 
in  regard   to  the  character  of  a  person,  we  would  advise  every  student  to 

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be  especially  careful  in  judging  these  conditions  and  in  drawing  his  con- 
clusions. We  hope  to  facilitate  a  better  understanding  of  these  defects 
by  the  following  remarks. 

A  sign  of  inflammation  in  12  occiput  indicates  a  spot  very  sensitive 
to  pressure,  and  it  betrays  also  the  presence  of  sugar  in  the  urine,  for  in- 
stance after  a  fall  on  the  back  part  of  the  skull;  on  the  other  hand, 
wrongly  treated  diseases  of  the  ear  will  have  the  tendency  to  pass  from 
13  to  12;  signs  of  inflammation  in  the  occiput  are  generally  connected 
with  affections  of  the  ear  and  sometimes  with  an  encumbrance  of  the  lungs. 
In  case  of  an  encumbrance  of  16  forehead  and  temples  we  may  expect 
with  certainty  ailments  of  the  eyes  and  teeth,  while  the  latter  will  some- 
times appear  in  16. 

An  encumbrance  of  11  and  16  roof  of  the  skull,  forehead,  and  tem- 
ples shows  mental  debility,  thoughtlessness,  and  laziness,  while  defects 
in  11  and  12  vertex  and  occiput  indicate  disturbances  of  mind  and  senses. 

A  heavier  encumbrance  of  all  these  parts  12-11-16  warrants  the 
assumption  that  we  are  confronted  with  a  narrow-minded,  superficial, 
and  selfish  person  who  in  all  his  undertakings  is  guided  solely  by  his 
craving  for  money.  The  reason  why  such  an  individual  can  seldom 
accomplish  his  purpose,  in  spite  of  his  utmost  unscrupulousness  in  regard 
to  ways  and  means,  is  his  inability  to  work  independently  and  his  lack  of 
perseverance  in  carrying  through  an  undertaking.  Such  persons,  in 
their  narrow-mindedness,  generally  kill  the  hen  which  lays  the  golden 
eggs.  Restless  and  nervous  people  show  the  above-named  signs  in  a  less 
degree,  but  they  also  are  unable  to  perform  useful  work,  for  their  pre- 
tended activity  and  industry  are  not  earnest,  intelligent  endeavor  but 
simply  trifling. 

Patients  suffering  from  brain  and  nervous  diseases  are  the  most  diffi- 
cult to  please  by  the  nature-cure.  With  every  patient  there  comes  a  time 
when  he  becomes  angry  and  displeased  with  physician  and  nature  cure, 
because  at  this  period  the  morbid  encumbrance  of  the  brain  is  being  dis- 
solved, which  causes  a  temporary  irritation  of  the  nervous  system.  The 
crises  may  often  be  exceedingly  and  uncommonly  grave,  as  bleeding  of 
the  nose,  suppurations  of  the  head  or  ailments  of  the  feet;  they  must  be 
treated  very  discreetly,  as  they  always  appear  at  the  critical  point  when 
the  system  has  sufficiently  rallied  to  make  a  decisive  struggle  for  ultimate 
recovery.  These  symptoms  are  especially  noticed  in  persons  who  suffer 
from  the  graver  diseases  of  the  nervous  system.  They  are  utterly  disgusted 
with  life  when  the  crises,  nervosity,  restlessness,  and  sleeplessness  appear, 
and  the  patient  is  inclined  to  give  up  the  cure.  The  latter  case,  how- 
ever, seldom  happens  if  he  has  but  a  little  patience  and  perseverance, 
because  his  better  sense  tells  him  in  quiet  periods  that  these  conditions 
are  but  the  stepping-stones  to  health.  During  this  time  more  cold  wash- 
ings of  the  head  than  of  the  whole  body  should  be  made,  while  frequent 
air-baths  will  bring  much  alleviation  and  accelerate  the  cure. 

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Right  eye,  I.  29  tuberculosis  of  the  knee.  31  hip.  34  arm,  carries 
a  much-feared  ailment,  because  allopath}',  if  it  would  effect  a  "  cure  "  in 
such  cases,  must  always  resort  to  the  knife  of  the  surgeon.  By  the  nat- 
ural method  of  healing  caries  is  comparatively  easy  to  cure,  without  leav- 
ing sears  or  deformities.  To  state  an  example,  we  refer  to  the  case  of 
Prince  William  of  Wurtemberg  (p.  50)  whose  life  was  saved  by  the  in- 
telligent application  of  natural  healing  methods  by  the  naturist  Schroths 
who  had  neither  title  nor  diploma.  In  all  such  cases  the  importance  of  a 
non-irritating,  meatless  diet  and  the  avoidance  of  all  stimulants  and  nar- 
cotics can  never  be  too  much  emphasized.  The  signs  of  caries  are  catar- 
rhal defects  of  the  first  class;  but  by  surgical  interference  they  are  at 
once  turned  into  such  of  the  second  and  third  class. 

II.  21  1.  e.  hip  shows  a  defect  which  was  aggravated  by  an  incision 
made  for  "  diagnostic  purposes."  This  method  of  diagnosing  a  disease, 
known  as  "  exploratory  incision,"  is  of  ten  employed  by  allopathy,  thereby 
attesting  its  inability  to  ascertain  the  nature  of  a  disease,  unless  the 
symptoms  are  plain  and  undubitable. 

III.  35  cancer  of  the  chest;  the  right  side  had  not  been  treated 
operatively  as  was  the  case  with  the  left  side  which  therefore  shows  in 
the  iris  a  darker  color,  almost  covering  the  whole  section. 

IV.  22  1.  e.  esophagus,  mouth  of  the  stomach  afflicted  with  cancer. 
Y.     23  1.  e.  heart,  shows  signs  of  inflammation  and  enlargement. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  shows  that  serious  organic  defects  of  the 
heart  are  not  very  frequent;  most  heart  diseases  are  inflammatory  defects, 
appearing  after  medicinally  treated  rheumatism,  skin  diseases,  etc. 
All  affections  of  the  heart  can  be  easily  cured  if  the  patient  overcomes  his 
aversion  to  cold-water  applications,  for  the  popular  belief  that  such  treat- 
ments would  be  injurious  in  these  conditions  is  entirely  unfounded.  Pal- 
pitations Stop  almost  instantly  if  a  piece  of  linen  soaked  in  cold  water  is 
put  Upon  the  heart  or  still  better  upon  the  abdomen.     It  is  superfluous 

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to  remark  that  heart  diseases  may  also  be  the  consequences  of  the  exces- 
sive use  of  alcoholic  liquors  and  tobacco;  stimulants  as  well  as  narcotics 
must  be  entirely  discarded  to  effect  a  permanent  cure. 

VI.  24  1.  e.  upper  back,  swellings  and  tuberculous  ulcerations.  N 
rupture  of  the  naval. 

VII.  36  lungs,  r.  e.  asthma,  1.  e.  serious  catarrh.  In  regard  to  this 
defect  we  have  to  add  the  following  interesting  circumstances:  the  patient, 
a  brown-eyed  young  man,  has  been  devoted  to  physical  culture  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  and  has  well-developed  muscles  which  he  proudly  showed 
when  he  consulted  us  on  account  of  his  constant  inclinations  to  colds. 
We  explained,  however,  that  bulging  muscles  do  not  necessarily  assure 
perfect  health  and  pure  blood,  and  that  in  case  of  impoverished  blood 
strenuous  exercise  may  often  be  followed  by  affections  of  the  heart.  If  a 
man  frequently  suffers  from  colds,  it  shows  that  his  system  is  loaded  with 
impurities  and  that  his  vitality  is  lowered,  and  this  fact  cannot  be  changed 
by  the  most  perfectly  developed  muscles.  In  nearly  all  such  cases  we 
shall  find  upon  closer  examination  that  the  development  of  the  muscles  is 
not  harmonious,  but  onesidedly  restricted  to  the  arms. 

Every  healthy  man  is  strong,  but  not  every  athlete  is  healthy  and 
enduring.  Professional  athletes  and  pugilists  who  do  not  adopt  a  natural 
diet  hardly  ever  live  to  an  old  age,  and  their  great  strength  soon  gives 
way  to  premature  debility ;  they  generally  lack  endurance  and  resistance 
against  outward  influences,  as  severe  weather,  etc.  In  such  cases  the 
value  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  cannot  be  too  highly  estimated,  be- 
cause it  reveals  the  most  hidden  defects  of  the  body  and  often  shows  dis- 
eased organs  where  we  should  expect  them  the  least.  It  will  be  of  inter- 
est to  the  reader,  therefore,  if  we  relate  another  typical  case  of  our  prac- 
tice. One  day  two  brothers  called  on  us,  apparently  healthy  lads  of 
18  and  20  years  of  age  and  of  quite  an  athletic  appearance.  Yet  one  of 
the  brothers  had  a  serious  closed  catarrhal  defect  in  the  inferior  lobe  of 
the  right  lung,  while  the  other  had  a  similar  defect  in  the  superior  lobe 
of  the  left  lung.  The  brothers,  as  intelligent  adherents  of  physical  cul- 
ture, readily  perceived  the  teachings  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  and 
the  natural  method  of  living  and  healing.  After  a  three  months'  strict 
cold-water  and  diet-cure  (principally  raw  food)  the  above-mentioned  de- 
fects had  disappeared,  the  color  of  the  iris  which  had  turned  brown  in 
consequence  of  vaccination  and  suppressed  scabies  brightened  up  again 
and  the  vitality  and  dexterity  of  their  body  had  considerably  increased. 
The  followers  of  systematic  physical  culture  should  draw  the  right  con- 
clusions from  this  case  and  adopt  a  natural,  simple,  and  frugal  diet  and 
use  cold  water  freely  to  invigorate  and  purify  their  body. 

Our  art  is  bound  to  give  also  in  this  direction  much  enlightenment 
and  valuable  suggestions.  It  will  especially  call  the  attention  of  the 
teachers  to  the  fact  that  blue-eyed  pupils  with  a  dense  iris  will  always 
make  the  best  progress,  and  thus  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  will  solve 

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many  a  riddle  for  them.  The  physical  culturist  will  gain  the  intelligence 
that  bodily  exercise  alone-  is  not  sufficient  to  acquire  perfect  health,  and 
that  the  highest  improvement  can  only  be  attained  by  studying  and  ob- 
serving the  laws  of  nature. 

We  admit  that  in  order  to  be  at  one's  best,  mentally  as  well  as  phys- 
ically, the  body  must  take  regular  and  systematic  exercise,  and  in  no 
other  way  can  an  active  brain  be  so  easily  stimulated.  Body  and  brain 
are  most  closely  interdependent,  and  one  cannot  be  neglected  without 
injuring  the  other.  Physical  exercise  and  hygienic  living  are  indivisible 
requisites  for  the  attainment  of  the  highest  ideals,  and  one  is  impotent 
without  the  other. 

On  the  other  hand,  abnormal  muscular  development  is  almost  impos- 
sible for  an  active  brain- worker.  Our  attention  should  never  be  turned 
toward  a  development  of  the  muscles  alone,  for  they  neither  insure  health 
nor  power  of  mind.  The  athlete  or  pugilist  may  have  a  splendidly  built 
body,  but  he  is  seldom  productive  for  the  good  of  mankind,  and  his  sole 
aim  in  life  is  making  and  spending  money,  without  any  higher  ideal.  If 
we  pay  too  much  attention  to  physical  perfection,  we  are  apt  to  lose  sight 
of  the  far  more  important  cultivation  of  the  mind. 

The  highest  stage  of  human  perfection  can  only  be  attained  by  a 
generation  that  not  only  encourages  athletic  sports  but  also,  and  in  a  still 
higher  degree,  the  development  of  the  intellectual  faculties.  The  diligent 
study  of  the  eternal  laws  of  nature  and  the  increasing  knowledge  of  her 
wonderful  works  will  teach  us  simplicity,  frugality,  and  hygiene,  leading 
us  onward  and  upward  to  better  and  happier  conditions  of  life. 

*  * 

In  concluding  our  disquisitions  to  the  various  illustrations  we  wish 
to  make  a  few  general  remarks.  Only  those  will  fully  enjoy  the  great 
value  of  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  who  practice  this  wonderful  art  as  that 
what  it  intends  to  be:  a  means  to  teach  and  enlighten  humanity,  a  way 
to  attain  deeper  insight  into  the  innermost  recesses  of  human  nature. 
The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  affords  genuine  and  comprehensive  knowledge; 
while  it  condemns  the  views  and  methods  of  allopathy,  replacing  at  the 
same  time  blind  belief  by  actual  knowledge,  it  will  be  a  great  gain  for 
humanity  which  will  thereby  be  enabled  to  dispense  with  all  guardianship 
whether  physical  or  mental  and  take  the  control  of  its  welfare  and  destiny 
into  its  own  hands.  This  will  certainly  be  the  case  when  our  teachings 
are  comprehended  in  their  fullest  extent,  and  we  shall  shortly  point  out  by 
an  example  what  we  mean  by  this  term. 

Experience  and  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  show  that  vaccination 
against  smallpox  is  injurious,  because  the  vaccine  corrupts  blood  and 
lymph  still  more.  The  bad  effects  may  often  appear  at  once,  especially 
if  the  body  is  already  heavily  encumbered  with  morbid  matter,  for  in- 
stance by  the  suppression  oi  milk-scurf,  or  they  may  show  themselves 
later   if   the  system  was  still   in  a  comparatively  healthy  condition.      But 

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vaccination  has  another  disadvantage,  because  it  deceives  people  as  to  the 
real  causes  of  disease;  they  believe  themselves  protected  against  sickness 
by  the  vaccine  and  continue  their  old  perverted  dietetic  and  hygienic 
methods  of  living  and  unsanitary  and  sometimes  squalid  habits. 

Consequently  the  follower  and  practitioner  of  the  natural  method  of  heal- 
ing who  wishes  to  act  consistently  has  not  yet  done  his  -whole  duty  by  his  mere 
opposition  to  vaccination;  far  more  important  is  the  open  propagation  of  the 
truth  that  we  can  only  render  ourselves  immune  against  smallpox  and  other 
dangerous  diseases  by  purifying  our  blood  and  invigorating  our  system  by  a 
natural  mode  of  living;  malignant  epidemics  will  then  become  less  frequent 
and  less  fatal,  because  the  resistive  and  self-healing  power  of  the  system  has 
been  greatly  increased.  Consciousness  of  our  own  power  attained  by  an.  in- 
cessant and  untiring  study  of  the  laws  of  nature  is  a  better  protection  against 
disease  than  the  thoughtless  reliance  upon  the  opinions  of  others. 

From  this  standpoint  we  are  fully  justified  in  reproaching  the  old 
school  of  medicine  for  fostering  ignorance  in  hygienic  and  dietetic  ques- 
tions by  directing  people  to  look  everywhere  for  the  cause  of  their  ail- 
ments but  in  themselves. 

In  accordance  with  the  natural  method  of  healing  the  diagnosis  from 
the  eye  conceives  the  body  as  a  unity.  Diseases,  in  whatever  form  they 
may  appear,  are  but  the  consequences  of  violations  of  the  laws  of  nature. 
Man  as  the  highest  organized  being  possesses  the  greatest  power  of  resist- 
ance against  injurious  influences;  and  for  this  very  reason  many  a  morbid 
process  may  be  going  on  in  his  body  without  making  itself  immediately 
perceptible.  In  spite,  or  rather  because,  of  our  much-praised  civilization 
the  majority  of  men  is  hereditarily  encumbered,  and  their  irrational 
modes  of  living  increases  the  evil  still  more. 

In  speaking  of  diseased  parts  or  organs,  the  allopathic  practitioners 
assume  that  the  ailment  is  restricted  to  the  respective  places  in  the  sys- 
tem, while  we  can  always  prove  that  it  is  a  general  encumbrance  with 
morbid  matter  which  affects  certain  organs  more  than  others  because  they 
are  weakened  by  heredity,  false  modes  of  living,  accidents,  etc.  The 
diagnosis  from  the  eye  reveals  all  changes  for  the  better  or  worse  in  the 
organism  long  before  the  patient  is  conscious  of  them  or  before  they  can 
be  detected  by  the  old  methods  of  diagnosis.  Under  no  condition  can  we 
therefore  approve  of  the  practice  of  so-called  specialists,  because  our  diag- 
nosis clearly  and  distinctly  shows  that  local  treatment  is  entirely  inade- 
quate and  that  only  by  living  in  perfect  harmony  with  nature  can  per- 
manent health  and  vigor  be  restored.  The  nomenclature  of  the  various 
diseases  is  therefore  of  secondary  importance;  they  may  serve  to  confuse 
the  patient,  but  they  will  never  enlighten  or  benefit  him.  The  vocabu- 
lary of  the  old  school  is  being  constantly  enlarged  and  augmented  by 
by  new  unpronouncable  exotic  words,  without  helping  suffering  human- 
ity. It  is  astonishing  what  soothing  influence  such  ponderous  words 
sometimes  have  even  upon  otherwise   intelligent   people.     The  patient 

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asks:  "  What  is  the  name  of  my  disease,  doctor?  "  With  the  usual  pro- 
fessional solemnity  the  latter  answers:  "You  are  suffering  of  rheuma- 
tism, neurasthenia/'  etc., — and  the  patient  feels  greatly  relieved,  for  he 
knows  now  what  his  pains  mean  in  Greek,  and  is  probably  satisfied  with 
a  Latin  prescription. 

We  hope  that  the  present  work  will  effect  beneficial  changes  in  this 
respect,  as  the  gaining  of  the  intelligence  that  most  diseases  are  only  the 
result  of  a  violation  of  the  laws  of  nature  will  be  the  starting-point  for  a 
better  and  healthier  life.  The  dubious  practices  of  many  doctors  will 
then  become  unmasked,  and  the  old,  but  still  much-neglected  motto  will 
rule:  "Medicus  curat,  naiura  sanat,"  and  above  all  the  special  treatment 
of  diseases  must  finally  give  way  to  the  complete  regeneration  of  the  in- 
dividual. What  the  people  need  most,  therefore,  is  instruction  as  to  the 
right  way  of  living  and  healing, — then  a  healthy  and  vigorous  generation 
will  rise  that  will  endure  neither  physical  nor  mental  fetters. 

There  will  surely  be  attempts  made  to  exploit  our  art  for  the  benefit 
of  allopathy,  because  the  old  methods  of  diagnosis,  for  instance  the 
examinations  of  blood,  urine,  feces  and  other  excretions,  are  entirely 
unreliable  and  wholly  inadequate;  even  in  the  case  of  an  already  active 
disease  these  methods  are  of  little  value,  not  to  mention  the  fact  that  they 
can  never  give  us  any  information  as  to  the  origin  of  the  disease.  The 
use  of  the  X-rays  as  a  medium  for  diagnosis  has  also  been  a  failure.  The 
confession  of  allopathic  practitioners  themselves  that  ' '  the  principal  part 
of  medical  science  is  the  diagnosis,  not  the  cure  of  disease,"  must  be 
amended  by  the  addition  that  it  cannot  do  either. 

We  arc  firmly  convinced  that  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye  will  attract 
the  attention  of  all  educated  people,  especially  of  the  scientific  world,  and 
will  awaken  in  many  the  desire  to  study  and  practice  our  teachings. 
Phrenology  will  be  especially  benefited  by  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye 
in  many  respects;  to  mention  only  one  of  the  most  important  points:  the 
iris  reflects  all  those  pathological  conditions  of  the  brain  which  would 
escape  the  observation  of  even  the  most  experienced  phrenologist  hut 
which  are  of  special  value  for  the  exact  delineation  of  the  character  and 
faculties  of  a  man. 

On  the  other  hand,  there  will  be  many  who  in  order  to  conceal  their 
own  ignorance  and  inability  will  try  to  ridicule  our  art,  while  others  will 
attempt  to  use  it  for  selfish  purposes,  sometimes  in  the  most  unscrupulous 
and  despicable  manner. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye,  however,  is  an  art  which  cannot  he  so 
easily  mastered;  many  find  the  learning  out  of  hooks  difficult,  while 
others  like  more  convenient  methods, — many  are  called  hut  few  are 
I  hosen.  No  doubt  freebooters  and  fraudulent  individuals  will  try  to  make 
use  of  our  art,  and  soon  all  kinds  of  fakirs  will  appear  who  will  add  to 
their  other  high-sounding  titles  that  of  an  "  expert  eye  diagnostician  " 
and  guarantee  to  every  fool  that  they  will  teach  him  our  ait  the  quicker 

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the  more  he  pays  for  it,  presenting  him  with  a  beautiful  diploma  at  the 
end  of  the  course. 

But  in  order  to  be  able  to  instruct  in  an  art  which  is  interpreting 
nature,  the  eternal  fountain  of  truth  and  wisdom,  one  must  possess  a 
little  more  than  boldness,  egotism,  and  self-conceit.  To  protect  the  pub- 
lic as  well  as  our  art,  we  shall  always  endeavor  to  prevent  incompetent 
and  fraudulent  persons  to  rob  their  fellowmen  by  false  and  exaggerated 
promises  and  therefore  request  all  friends  of  true  and  earnest  investigation 
to  aid  us  in  this  good  cause  as  far  a£  possible. 

The  proverb  says,  ' '  Stagnation  is  retrogression, ' '  and  a  new  truth  can 
only  be  promoted  by  constantly  creating  new  spiritual  centres  in  the  form 
of  a  union  of  persons  of  the  same  mind  from  which  the  teachings  of 
nature  can  be  spread  in  larger  circles.  We  shall  try  to  do  our  duty  in 
this  respect  also  and  report  from  time  to  time  about  the  progress  of  this 
movement,  for  which  purpose  we  shall  use  the  last  pages  of  the  following 
editions  of  this  book. 

Thus  we  expect  to  promote  not  only  the  interesting  study  of  the 
diagnosis  from  the  eye  and  to  acquaint  the  broad  masses  of  the  people 
with  it,  but  to  care  also  for  it  that  its  teachings  are  kept  pure  and  un- 
adulterated, a  sharp  weapon  against  medical  superstition,  a  lightening 
torch  for  humanity  in  its  long  and  laborious  struggle  for  mental  and 
physical  freedom. 


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,  cerebrum,  or  brain  proper;  b,  cerebellum,  or  little  brain;  r,  spinal  con! ; 
nerve  of  face;  «,/,  g,  h,  nerves  of  arm ;  i,  nerves  between  ribs;  A,  ner 
lower  part  of  back  ;  /,  nerves  in  region  of  hip ;  m,  n,  ot  p,  nerves  of  the  leg. ' 


gll«  >"  it"'  ■ i- ,  i,  iplnal  ganglia  ,  .'•,  ft,  branehea  going  to  '...-.in  .  7 

nerves  about  diaphragm;  B,  nervo  to  iigeatlva  organa;  :>.  semilunar  raogllobi 
to,  ii,  12,  nerves  1,,  abdomen i  I3,amall  nerves  going  .nh  arterlaa  to  brain. 

Hot t.d  lines  sln.vv  position  of  a,  be:iil,aud  A,  diaphragm. 


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PART  III. 

The  Natural  Method  of  Healing. 

"Learn  in  time  that  you  may  know  in  need. 


GENERAL  PRECEPTS. 

FULL  discussion  of  all  the  various  forms  of  ailments  is  impos- 
sible in  this  limited  space;  we  can  therefore  refer  only  to  the 
most  important  and  frequent  cases,  giving  at  first  some  general  precepts 
in  the  prevention  and  cure  of  disease. 

Over  two  thousand  years  ago  the  Grecian  author  Plutarch  put  up 
the  golden  rule  :  "If  you  feel  sick,  don't  use  medicines  at  once  but  rather 
fast  a  day,  and  never  forget  the  body  by  devoting  too  much  attention  to 
the  mind. ' '  Better  avoid  all  allopathic  physicians  and  their  poisonous 
drugs  as  well  as  the  surgeons;  if  j-ou  need  a  medical  advisor  at  all,  have 
a  sincere  exponent  of  the  poisonless  method  of  healing,  but  always 
remember  that  there  is  but  one  physician  who  can  guarantee  us  a  perfect 
cure,  and  that  is  Nature. 

According  to  the  well-known  but  too  often  neglected  proverb,  "An 
ounce  of  prevention  is  better  than  a  pound  of  cure,"  get  in  time  acquainted 
with  the  teachings  of  physiology  and  hygiene,  shun  all  medicine-poisons, 
adopt  a  flesh  and  bloodless  diet  and  learn  to  appreciate  as  an  almost  ex- 
clusive nourishment  the  luscious  fruits  and  nuts,  nature's  unsurpassed 
medicines  which  she  abundantly  provides  for  all.  A  simple  and  frugal 
life,  water,  pure  air,  and  sunshine,  are  the  only  factors  necessary  for  regen- 
erating and  healing  the  body,  and  they  will  not  only  prevent  diseases  but 
will  also  cure  inherited  evils  or  quickly  heal  injuries  caused  by  accidents 
and  morbid  conditions  produced  by  unavoidable  circumstances. 

Patience — and  true  knowledge  gives  us  patience — will  greatly  alle- 
viate our  pain;  if  every  one  knows  that  each  encumbered  or  abnormal 
part  of  the  body  is  to  be  called  "diseased,"  that  the  rebuilding  to  the 
normal  state  is  not  an  easy  task,  and  that  we  should  never  feel  offended 
at  the  actions  of  the  patient, — we  shall  look  at  everything  from  a  more 
conciliatory  point  of  view,  and  much  grievance  will  be  avoided.  The 
patient  knows  that  he  is  on  the  right  track,  and  his  friends  also  realize 
that  by  clearly  pointing  out  to  him  the  necessity  of  pain  to  restore  perfect 
health — for  nobody  can  violate  nature's  laws  with  impunity — he  and  his 

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companions  will  bear  the  burden  with  resignation.  I  knew  a  physician 
who  had  many  striking  successes  by  his  original  methods  of  treatment 
and  who  told  his  patients  complaining  about  pains  arising  during  the 
cure:  "  You  ought  to  be  glad  of  having  such  a  good  and  rapid  cure,  and 
yon  will  certainly  allow  me  to  charge  you  now  more  for  my  services." 

The  following  example  will  answer  the  question  of  the  curability  of 
chronic  diseases.  We  take  a  case  of  ailment  of  the  eyes  and  ears  and  its 
different  stages  until  deafness  and  blindness  sets  in.  Are  these  morbid 
conditions  the  consequences  of  false  treatment,  perhaps  of  milk-scurf, 
scarlet,  diphtheria,  etc.,  a  cure  will  be  possible  in  most  instances  if  the 
the  disease  has  not  yet  been  aggravated  too  much  by  the  pernicious  prac- 
tices of  so-called  specialists. 

A  six-year  old  girl  was  taken  ill  with  diphtheria  after  being  vacci- 
nated, and  the  allopathic  treatment  of  the  disease  was  followed  by  in- 
fantile spinal  paralysis  {anterior  poliomyelitis} .  After  the  parents  had 
spent  a  fortune  with  allopathic  physicians  and  druggists,  they  resolved 
to  try  the  vegetarian  diet,  and  to  make  it  easier  for  the  child  (now  12 
years  of  age)  they  lived  on  the  same  plan,  especially  as  several  smaller 
ills  from  which  they  had  suffered  entirely  disappeared  by  the  use  of  plain 
and  unirritating  food.  After  six  months,  during  which  a  strictly  natural 
manner  of  living  had  been  observed  in  connection  with  moderate  and  not 
enforced  cold-water  treatments,  the  girl  experienced  a  crisis  in  the  form 
of  fever  and  diarrhea,  etc.,  followed  by  discharge  of  morbid  matter 
through  the  nose  in  the  form  of  a  copious  effluence  which  lasted  for  three 
months.  A  year  after  the  beginning  of  the  cure,  i.  e.  natural  manner  of 
living,  the  before  emaciated  leg  had  become  as  strong  and  vigorous  as 
the  other  normal  one.  We  admit  that  not  all  cases  may  be  so  favorable 
and  have  such  apparent  success,  but  as  long  as  the  cure  does  not  cause 
any  outlay  of  money  and  as  it  is  not  a  cure  in  the  general  meaning  of 
the  word,  it  may  be  successfully  tried  by  every  one  who  does  not  make 
the  fatal  mistake  to  call  at  the  appearance  of  the  first  crisis  (i.  e.  the 
first  sign  of  reappearing  vitality)  an  allopathic  physician  who  by  poison- 
ous drugs  undoes  everything  that  has  been  made  good  by  common  sense. 
The  power  that  awakened  the  dormant  vigor  of  the  body  to  effect  a 
crisis  (i.  e.  an  accute  discharge  of  morbid  matter)  will  also  be  able  to 
bring  the  crisis  to  its  end  by  completely  purifying  the  system. 

Whoever  cannot  fully  endorse  these  views  should  rather  not  begin  to 
walk  the  long  and  often  tedious  paths  of  natural  healing  that  lead  from 
the  dark  valleys  of  disease  and  despair  through  many  windings  up  to 
the  sunny  hills  of  health  and  happiness.  But  -let  us  say  it  right  here— 
whoever  will  not  do  his  own  thinking  is  nothing  but  a  slave, — a  traitor 
to  himself  and  to  his  fellowmen.  Everybody  should  stand  under  the 
triumphant  flag  of  nature,  a  peer  of  every  other  man.  Health  is  the 
greatest  of  all  blessings,  though  we  prize  it  but  little  until  we  lose  it. 
By  the  development  of  our  powers  through  obedience  to  the  laws  of 

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nature  we  cannot  fail  to  become  healthy  and  strong  in  body  and  mind. 
The  preservation  of  health,  therefore,  is  only  a  matter  of  living  in  perfect 
harmony  with  nature.  Health  is  the  normal  state  of  our  existence,  but 
the  majority  of  people  take  far  more  trouble  to  make  themselves  ill  than 
they  will  ever  need  to  do  to  maintain  their  health. 


The  Care  and  Treatment  of  the  Child. 

Every  child  has  a  right  to  be  born  with -a  strong  constitution  which 
is  the  best  and  most  valuable  inheritance  parents  can  bestow  upon  their 
offspring,  and  failing  health  and  vitality  is  a  much  greater  misfortune 
than  poverty.  We  can  hardly  expect  people  who  know  little  or  nothing 
of  their  body  to  be  able  to  preserve  their  own  health  and  that  of  their 
children.  As  long  as  children  are  brought  into  the  world  under  condi- 
tions involving  less  consideration  than  stock-raisers  generally  exercise  in 
improving  the  strain  of  their  animals,  there  will  be  need  of  physical  edu- 
cation to  correct  blemishes  and  imperfections  arising  from  faulty  parent- 
age. The  ignorance  concerning  the  laws  of  health  and  nature  account  in 
a  great  measure  for  the  evils  of  intemperance  and  the  acts  of  passion  of 
which  we  hear  every  day.  A  careful  study  of  all  the  teachings  contained 
in  this  book  will  therefore  prove  a  boon  to  parents. 

On  pages  52  to  54  we  have  given  explicit  instruction  how  to  secure 
an  easy  and  painless  parturition,  and  we  cannot  emphasize  too  strongly 
the  facts  contained  in  this  disquisition.  In  addition  to  that  we  desire  to 
refer  at  this  place  to  a  few  more  equally  important  points.  A  great  mis- 
take is  made  during  the  act  of  parturition  by  cutting  the  navel-string 
before  the  after-birth  is  expulsed  from  the  uterus.  As  long  as  the  pla- 
centa is  not  separated  from  the  wall  of  the  uterus,  the  circulation  of  the 
blood  from  the  mother  to  the  child  is  going  on,  and  a  premature  cutting 
of  the  naval-string  will  therefore  give  the  infant  an  insufficient  supply  of 
blood  from  the  beginning.  That  the  pernicious  tight  lacing  of  the 
"fashionable"  mother  is  one  of  the  principal  causes  of  the  dislocation 
of  the  hip-joint  in  new-born  children  we  have  repeatedly  stated. 

The  mother  should  always  nurse  the  child  herself,  and  this — being 
the  best  for  both — could  be  made  possible  in  nearly  every  instance  if  the 
mother  would  adopt,  especially  during  pregnancy,  a  strictly  plain  and 
non-irritating  diet  consisting  mostly  of  fruits.  Next  to  the  mother  a 
healthy  nurse  is  best  adapted  to  nourish  the  infant.  The  milk  of  a 
healthy  animal  living  in  perfect  freedom  is  also  a  good  substitute  which, 
however,  should  be  given  uncooked  and  undiluted;  if  this  cannot  be  pro- 
cured, whole  wheat  or  oats  may  be  boiled  and  the  blood-warm  solution 
given  after  it  has  been  strained  of  its  coarser  elements;  fruits,  for  instance 
grated  ripe  apples,  will  also  make  a  good  nourishment. 

The  child  should  sleep  near  the  mother.  In  bathing  the  child,  only 
cold  water  should  be  used;  it  is  best  to  begin  by  immersing  the  child  right 

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from  the  bed  for  a  second  into  cold  water  having  the  temperature  of  the 
outside  air.  Much  harm  is  done  by  the  warm  and  sometimes  hot  bath 
and  the  use  of  soap.  If  the  infant  is  afflicted  with  eruptions  of  the  skin, 
these  ought  to  be  regarded  as  a  sign  that  the  body  has  sufficient  vitality 
to  expel  inherited  or  by  improper  nourishment  imparted  impurities.  If 
the  body  is  not  impeded  in  its  work — a  circumstance  which  unfortunately 
does  not  happen  very  often — and  if  otherwise  proper  care  is  taken,  the 
purification  of  the  system  is  perfected  in  the  course  of  from  two  to  four 
weeks,  and  in  the  same  time  the  general  appearance  of  the  child  has  im- 
proved, his  eyes  have  become  brighter  and  the  skin  healthy  and  rosy. 

In  almost  every  instance  this  very  first  elimination  is  made  impossible 
by  the  application  of  powders  and  salves;  as  a  result  catarrh  of  the  stom- 
ach and  the  intestines  sets  in,  eyes  and  skin  lose  their  freshness,  the  iris 
shows  the  first  beginnings  of  a  scurf-rim,  and  often  the  foundation  of 
various  diseases,  for  instance  heart  disease,  is  laid. 

L,ater  on  the  body  of  the  child  generally  tries  again  to  eliminate  the 
morbid  matter  in  the  form  of  dandruff  and  seborrhea  capitis.  Of  course, 
what  could  formerly  have  been  accomplished  in  weeks  now  takes  months, 
and  the  elimination  goes  on  in  a  more  unsightly  form.  The  places  of  the 
skin  where  the  poison  appears  are  barked,  torn,  and  scaling  off,  while 
the  child  scratches  til  blood  flows;  the  scratching  should  not  be  interfered 
with  in  this  case,  as  it  will  leave  no  scars. 

The  mother  in  her  vanity,  however,  applies  everything  possible  to 
suppress  this  unsightly  but  healthy  skin  eruption, — and  with  what  suc- 
cess! Scrofulosis  is  still  one  of  the  smaller  evils  that  follow  such  irra- 
tional treatments,  and  their  pernicious  effects  are  still  more  aggravated 
by  vaccination.  As  long  as  the  skin  was  active,  i.  e.  expelling  the  mor- 
bid matter,  the  child  was  healthy,  vivacious,  and  slept  well;  but  now 
after  the  suppression  it  is  always  restless  and  tired,  its  abdomen  becomes 
hard  and  expanded,  the  growth  of  the  body  is  impeded,  the  bones  are 
becoming  weaker,  the  hair  thinner,  while  the  skin  is  turning  pale  and 
yellow.  The  scurf-rim  of  the  iris  widens  to  a  broad  scurf-ring,  while  the 
color  of  the  iris  darkens  in  a  surprisingly  short  time.  But  the  worst  of 
all  is,  that  the  weal  and  hereditarily  encumbered  parts  of  the  body  can- 
not be  rebuilt  to  the  normal  and  healthy  state;  they  now  become  lasting 
defects  which  appear  in  the  iris  as  dark  spots  surrounded  by  whitish 
clouds. 

These  so-called  children's  diseases  ought  to  be  treated  as  follows: 
besides  adopting  a  strict  vegetarian  diet,  the  child  ought  to  be  daily  im- 
mersed into  cold  water,  best  soon  after  awakening.  If  the  child  is  still 
in  its  first  months,  it  should  be  put  in  bed  again  after  the  bath;  but  if  it 
can  walk  already,  it  may  take  an  air-bath,  i.  e.  run  around  naked  in  the 
room  until  the  water  in  the  skin  is  dried  up.  In  case  of  dandruff  or  skin 
eruptions  on  the  face  the  sore  places  ought  to  be  wetted  and  cleansed 

with  cold  water  from  time  to  time,  but  without  using  soap,  etc. 

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We  call  special  attention  to  the  fact,  that  in  order  to  allow  perfect 
perspiration  of  the  skin  children  as  well  as  adults  should  always  sleep 
naked  and  covered  as  lightly  as  possible,  for  in  the  state  of  rest  the  elim- 
ination of  worn-out  matter  goes  on  more  actively.  These  rules  refer  also 
to  the  treatment  of  scrofulosis  or  rachitis. 

The  treatment  of  acute  skin  diseases,  like  measles,  scarlet  fever,  etc., 
is  just  the  same;  the  poisonous  and  morbid  matter  is  thus  eliminated 
without  causing  much  distress.  Homeopathic  remedies  are  aconite,  bella- 
donna, psora,  sulphur,  etc. 

Diphtheria — the  consequence  of  vaccination — and  inflammation  of 
the  throat  require  a  longer  time  for  elimination,  from  5  to  7  days.  No 
constraint  whatever  should  be  exercised  upon  the  child.  Cold  washings 
of  the  head,  neck,  and  chest  should  be  made  in  case  of  serious  coughing- 
spells.  At  any  rate,  the  rules  given  above  should  be  carefully  observed. 
Homeopathic  remedies  for  this  sickness  are  apis  lycopodium,  more  fre- 
quently mercurius  cyan. 

For  whooping-cough  in  the  catarrhal  form  the  following  homeopathic 
medicaments  are  employed:  aconite,  belladonna,  or  hepar  sulphur;  during 
the  spasms,  drosera,  ipecac,  or  Pulsatilla,  a  dosis  of  the  suitable  remedy 
after  each  coughing-spell.  Cold-water  treatments  for  both  diseases  are 
wet  compresses  around  the  chest,  abdomen,  and  legs. 

On  this  occasion  we  wish  to  make  the  reader  acquainted  with  a  cer- 
tain grip  or  manipulation  which  is  advantageously  used  to  stop  the  suffo- 
cating spasms.  This  manipulation,  however,  should  not  be  regarded  as 
a  complete  remedy  for  whooping-cough,  but  rather  as  a  means  to  mitigate 
the  alarming  stages  of  the  disease  and  to  render  the  latter  more  endurable 
for  the  poor  little  patient.  The  manipulation  is  being  performed  by  lay- 
ing one  hand  on  the  forehead  of  the  patient,  pressing  his  head  gently 
backward,  while  at  the  same  time  the  thumb  of  the  other  hand  is  hooked 
behind  the  front-teeth  of  the  opened  mouth,  gripping  also  the  lower  jaw- 
bone which  is  pulled  forward  and  downward  with  a  light  jerk.  The 
other  fingers  of  the  hand  are  placed  below  the  chin  and  aid  the  thumb  in 
its  forward  pull.  The  manipulation  can  be  carried  out  quickly  and  ener- 
getically as  soon  and  as  often  as  the  suffocating  spasms  set  in,  but  good 
care  should  always  be  taken  that  not  only  the  front- teeth  but  also  the 
lower  jaw-bone  is  gripped  by  the  thumb.  The  entire  manipulation  will 
last  only  a  few  seconds,  as  the  little  patients  will  soon  be  able  to  breathe 
again. 

The  operation  is  so  simple  that  it  can  be  executed  by  almost  every 
member  of  the  household,  and  we  wonld  recommend  to  teach  it  especially 
to  those  who  are  constantly  in  company  of  the  suffering  children.  We 
have  had  the  opportunity  to  observe  the  excellent  effect  of  the  manipula- 
tion and  have  seen  how  children  themselves  offered  head  and  mouth  to 
the  rescuing  grip  as  soon  as  the  much-feared,  suffocating  spasms  were 
approaching. 

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The  Treatment  of    Indispositions. 

If  the  first  signs  of  indisposition  would  be  duly  observed  and  ration- 
ally treated,  inflammations  of  the  different  organs  would  appear  less  fre- 
quently and  less  seriously.  The  treatment  of  an  indisposition  ought  to 
consist  in  resting,  fasting,  drinking  of  pure  water  according  to  want, 
and  breathing  of  fresh  air  day  and  night,  while  special  attention  must  be 
paid  to  the  real  cause.  A  disordered  stomach  ought  to  be  treated  by 
strict  fasting,  a  wet  sheet-pack  around  the  abdomen,  or  the  short  band- 
age, both  of  which  will  be  described  on  p.  137;  they  must  be  renewed  as 
soon  as  they  do  not  cool  any  more.  A  cold  is  relieved  by  the  homeo- 
pathic remedy  aconite,  while  frequent  cold  washings  of  the  whole  body 
immediately  after  leaving  the  bed  restore  the  perfect  action  of  the  skin, 
and  soon  the  patient  will  be  covered  with  beneficent  perspiration.  Skin- 
diseases,  for  instance  skin-eruptions,  etc.,  are  also  treated  by  cold  wash- 
ings  of  the  body,  which  cool  the  skin  and  effect  a  better  and  easier  elimi- 
nation; for  internal  use  the  homeopathic  remedies  psora  or  hepar  sulphur 
may  be  given.  We  refer  here  to  the  interesting  fact  that  photography 
indicates  approaching  skin-diseases  long  before  they  are  visible  to  the 
human  eye.  In  such  cases  the  affected  places  of  the  skin  appear  in  the 
negative  of  the  photograph  as  if  strewn  with  dark  points  and  spots. 

The  general  treatment  of  the  body  as  explained  above  is  also  to  be 
employed  if  inflammation  of  the  organs  has  already  set  in;  the  local  treat- 
ment in  such  cases  consists  in  putting  cold-water  compresses  on  the  ach- 
ing and  burning  places;  plasters  of  clay  or  pot-cheese  may  also  be  used 
advantageously.  The  returning  of  the  pain  always  indicates  that  the  com- 
presses and  plasters  are  warm  and  dry  and  that  they  ought  to  be  renewed 
to  cool  again  the  inflamed  parts.  In  case  of  inflammations  in  the  head, 
for  instance  meningitis,  tooth-ache  etc. ,  we  wet  the  hair  and  the  scalp 
with  cold  water  and  cover  the  head  with  a  dry  towel.  This  simple  treat- 
ment which  is  more  convenient  than  compresses  (for  instance  on  the  fore- 
head )  greatly  diminishes  the  fever  heat,  brings  rest  and  sleep  and  is  our 
never-failing  dormitivc.  The  cold-water  treatment  consists  of  washing 
the  whole  or  the  upper  part  of  the  body  and  of  the  application  of  a  wet 
sheet-pack  around  the  abdomen  (short  bandage)  which  is  to  be  renewed 
as  soon  as  it  has  become  warm  and  dry. 

Homeopathic  remedies  for  fever:  in  all  inflammatory  processes,  aco- 
nite; in  all  cases  of  skin-fevers  (for  instance  measles,  scarlet- fever,  etc.  >. 
aconite,  belladonna,  psora,  sulphur;  an  old  popular  remedy  is  soffran  in 
homeopathic  doses;  in  all  cases  of  fevers  produced  by  suppressed  elimina- 
tions (for  instance  sweating  feet,  lichen,  etc.  ),  psora,  sulphur,  hepar  sul- 
phur; in  intermittent  fever:  arsenic;  in  nervous  and  typhous  fevers:  aco- 
nite, belladonna,  rhus  tox. 

A  disease  of  childhood  as  well  as  of  the  more  advanced  age  is  diar- 
rhea; in  tin-  first  ease  it  is  called  cholera  infantum  or  summer-complaint, 
as  it  generally  occurs  in  summer;  in  the  latter  case,  cholerine  or  cholera. 

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Whether  it  be  the  consequence  of  irrational  living  or  polluted  food,  or  of 
a  purifying  elimination  (crisis),  the  action  of  the  intestines  should  never 
be  paralyzed  by  allopathic  medicines,  as  opium,  etc. 

The  general  precepts  of  the  natural  method  of  healing  are:  observa- 
tion and  removal  of  the  cause,  change  of  diet,  quenching  of  the  thirst  by 
drinking  cold  water  which  should  be  neither  boiled  nor  distilled.  Homeo- 
pathic remedies,  if  the  evacuations  of  the  summer-complaints  are  foaming 
and  yellow:  ipecac;  if  the  stools  are  green  and  accompanied  by  pains: 
chamomilla. 

In  the  case  of  cholera  the  return  of  warmth  and  the  more  frequent 
but  moderate  sweating  of  the  body  indicate  the  decline  of  the  disease;  at 
this  stage,  especially  as  the  patient  then  enjoys  refreshing  sleep,  we  may 
dispense  with  the  homeopathic  remedies,  which  will  always  triumph, 
even  in  most  desperate  cases. 

In  case  of  rice-water-like  and  painless  stools,  camphor  tincture  may 
be  given,  three  drops  on  a  piece  of  sugar  three  times  in  intervals  of  five 
minutes.  In  case  of  vomiting  and  cramps  in  the  abdomen,  give  veratrum 
album  tincture  in  the  same  manner;  if  debility,  sinking  of  the  eyes,  un- 
quenchable thirst  set  in,  give  arsenic  homeopathically  as  stated  above. 
Cold-water  treatment:  sheet-pack  around  the  abdomen. 

The  Treatment  of  Scabies. 

In  the  following  treatise  on  Scabies  we  shall  go  a  little  more  into 
details,  because  we  mentioned  the  scabies  repeatedly  as  a  sign  of  blood- 
corruption  and  because  our  views  regarding  this  disease  will  certainly 
meet  opposition. 

We  explained  that  we  can  consider  the  mite  only  a  secondary  appear- 
ance and  that,  like  in  all  other  contagious  diseases,  infection  is  only  pos- 
sible where  the  body  is  predisposed  to  it  (i.  e.  encumbered  with  morbid 
matter);  in  fact,  we  have  repeatedly  noticed  in  the  natural  treatment 
how  the  long  expected  and  much  desired  crisis  finally  appeared  in  the 
form  of  scabies  in  cases  where  the  possibility  of  infection  was  absolutely 
excluded.  By  a  cool  and  careful  consideration  of  all  the  connecting  cir- 
cumstances we  cannot  but  come  to  the  conclusion  that  scabies,  like  so 
many  other  diseases,  has  its  origin  in  an  abnormal  and  impure  state  of 
lymph  and  blood  (dyscrasia),  especially  if  one  has  often  treated  patients 
afflicted  with  that  disease  and  has  observed  how  in  every  instance  before 
the  appearance  of  skin-eruptions  the  skin  of  the  individual  showed  a 
dirty-yellowish  color,  similar  to  that  of  persons  who  were  later  afflicted 
with  cancer;  it  is  only  necessary  to  pass  gently  with  the  fingers  over  the 
patient's  veins  running  near  the  surface  of  the  body,  and  one  can  feel  the 
foreign  matter  in  the  form  of  small  knots  below  the  skin,  several  days 
before  the  eruption  takes  place  in  the  form  of  scabies.  The  fact  alone 
that  with  such  a  patient,  who  is  yet  unaware  of  the  disease,  the  skin- 
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eruptions  will  appear  in  a  few  hours  after  taking  flowers  of  sulphur,  is  a 
proof  of  our  view  that  scabies  is  really  a  blood  disease. 

At  all  times  and  by  all  thinking  physicians  it  has  been  observed  and 
acknowledged  that  the  suppression  of  skin-diseases  is  always  followed  by 
more  serious  diseases,  and  men  like  Theophrastus  Paracelsus  and  his  con- 
temporaries Prospero  Alpini  and  Quercetanus,  and  over  200  years  ago  the 
Italian  Bonomo,  have  raised  their  warning  voice  against  this  fatal  practice. 

Hahnemann,  seeking  the  causes  of  chronic  diseases  and  their  difficult 
cure,  supposed  that  in  most  instances  "  the  healing  is  impeded  by  formerly 
suppressed  scabies."  His  own  observations  and  those  of  many  others 
showed  that  chronic  diseases  appeared  after  a  quick  suppression  of  scabies 
by  external  remedies,  and  this  circumstance  led  him  to  take  a  certain 
morbid  matter  which  he  called  Psora  for  the  cause  of  many  deep-rooted 
evils. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  shows  us  that  his  view  is  perfectly  right, 
and  that  those  homeopaths  who  did  not  agree  with  Hahnemann's  theory, 
on  account  of  the  discovery  of  the  mite  (1786),  were  wrong. 

Allopathy  treats  scabies,  like  all  other  skin-diseases,  with  salves  and 
soaps  containing  mostly  tar,  sulphur,  and  mercury,  and  at  the  same  time 
admits  that  patients  thus  cured  (?)  "get  afflicted  with  stiff  joints  and  have 
even  become  unable  to  move  their  limbs. ' '  We  can  complete  the  list  of 
injuries  caused  by  the  allopathic  treatment  of  scabies  by  adding  the  un- 
failing proofs  of  a  deep-going  corruption  of  blood  and  lymph:  over-sensi- 
tiveness against  colds,  predisposition  to  catarrh  and  inflammation  with 
more  or  less  fever,  in  the  last  stages:  serious  ulcers  and  tumors,  hot  and 
cold  gangrene,  and  cancer. 

In  fact,  every  experienced  practitioner  of  the  natural  method  of 
healing  has  often  occasion  to  observe  the  injuries  following  the  sup- 
pression of  scabies  (i.  e.  interfering  with  the  action  of  the  skin  by  means 
of  salves,  soaps,  and  similar  preparations).  Pastor  Kneipp  makes  the 
following  statement: 

"  The  abominated  evil  'scabies'  can  do  much  harm  on  the  surface, 
but  still  more  inside  of  the  body.  It  is  to  be  deplored  that  remedies  are 
used  which  instead  to  cure  (i.  e.  remove  the  cause  of  the  evil)  are  most 
detrimental  to  the  organism  and  become  the  source  of  endless  misery  and 
suffering.  Who  knows  all  the  fatty  salves  prepared  with  sulphur,  alco- 
hol, and  other  mixtures  ?  They  all  have  one  thing  common.  They  per- 
fectly close  the  pores  of  the  skin,  and  by  forming  a  greasy  crust  they 
almost  completely  stop  the  absolutely  necessary  perspiration  which  is 
thus  held  back  in  the  body,  causing  many  and  often  deadly  diseases. 
This  is  not  exaggerated  hut  very  grieving,  especially  if  one  knows  how 
easily  and  quickly  scabies  can  be  cured  by  natural  means. 

"A  well-grown  man,  28  years  of  age,  once  sought  my  counsel,  and 
ln's  appearance  reminded  me  immediately  of  a  worm-eaten  piece  of  wood. 
He  could   nowhere   find   relief,  nobody   knew  what   really   ailed   him.      I 

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asked  him:  '  Have  you  ever  been  afflicted  with  scabies  in  your  younger 
years  ?  '  He  affirmed  my  question;  '  but,'  he  added,  '  I  was  cured  within 
three  days.'     That  is  not  the  way  I  want  to  cure,  God  forbid! 

"Just  in  the  cure  of  such  loathsome  diseases  which  most  distinctly 
reveal  the  presence  of  foreign  and  poisonous  matter  in  the  system,  we 
must  uphold  the  principle:  Everything  in  the  body  that  does  not  belong 
there  must  be  expelled  from  it!  To  practice  the  contrary  would  be  just 
like  planting  vermin  into  the  clothing,  or  rabbits  and  mice  into  the  field. 
But  all  applications  which  bring  forth,  extract,  and  remove  poisonous 
matter  from  the  body  and  at  the  same  time  strengthen  the  organism  for 
vigorous  action,  assist  nature  in  her  wise  and  beneficial  course. 

"After  a  water  cure  of  six  weeks  the  skin  disease  was  perfectly 
healed,  and  the  patient  was  finally  able  to  choose  a  vocation.  He  enjoys 
still  the  best  of  health,  and  his  stubborn  sickness  has  vanished  without 
leaving  an}-  traces." — 

The  treatment  of  scabies  according  to  the  natural  method  of  healing 
is  the  same  as  that  of  other  skin-diseases:  do  not  prevent  the  patient 
from  scratching  which  brings  sooner  forth  the  eruptions,  as  the  itching  is 
always  a  plain  hint  of  nature;  a  strictly  non-irritating  diet,  water  as  a 
beverage,  and  pure  air  will  effect  a  speedy  recovery.  As  treatment  of 
the  skin  we  recommend,  according  to  need,  cold  baths,  washings  of  the 
body  wholly  or  partly,  about  two  or  three  applications  daily,  the  first 
soon  after  rising,  the  second  in  the  forenoon,  the  third  in  the  afternoon, 
and  in  the  evening  before  retiring  an  air-bath  of  about  ten  minutes'  dura- 
tion. If  there  is  no  opportunity  for  baths  or  washings,  the  skin  can  be 
cooled  by  covering  it  with  wet  linen,  which  may  be  renewed  after  an  hour 
or  two,  as  soon  as  the  linen  gets  dry  and  the  skin  begins  to  burn  again. 
The  homeopathic  remedy  for  scabies  is  sulphur. 

After  such  general  treatment  the  scabies  like  any  other  skin-disease 
comes  out  fully  and  wholly  and  generally  begin  to  heal  after  the  third  or 
fourth  day  of  the  appearance.  The  temporary  constipation  will  give  way 
to  copious  evacuations;  the  urine  will  lose  its  sharpness,  and  the  com- 
plexion which  long  before  the  appearance  of  the  disease  showed  a  some- 
what grayish  cast,  will  begin  to  get  clear  and  rosy. 

On  this  occasion  I  also  wish  to  point  out  that  warts,  corns,  etc.,  are  to 
be  regarded  as  diseases  and  have  to  be  treated  as  such.  We  have  observed 
how  the  wrong  treatment  of  these  evils  by  caustics,  erasion,  excision, 
etc.,  was  followed  by  serious  other  ailments,  for  instance  jaundice.  All 
such  morbid  thickenings  of  the  skin  are  removed  without  danger  by  the 
following  simple  remedy.  Cut  an  onion  through  the  middle  and  put  it 
in  vinegar  for  twenty- four  hours;  take  off  the  single  coats  and  tie  one  on 
the  surface  of  the  corn  during  the  night;  after  repeating  this  every  eve- 
ning for  one  week,  the  thickening  can  be  removed  painlessly.  Interior 
homeopathic  remedies  are  dulcamara,  hepar  sulphur,  lycopodium.  Juike 
all  other  patent  medicines,  all  so-called  ' '  corn-killers  ' '  are  useless. 

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In  conclusion  we  wish  to  say  that  it  is  under  all  circumstances  ob- 
jectionable and  useless  to  resort  to  cosmetics  in  the  desire  to  attain  a  clear 
complexion.  Impurities  of  the  skin,  whatever  their  name  may  be,  are 
always  the  proof  of  impure  blood.  Besides  the  suppression  of  the  milk- 
scurf,  the  extensive  use  of  soap  is  especially  responsible  for  the  fact  that 
a  pure  and  lustrous  skin  and  a  luxurious  growth  of  blond  hair  is  a  rarity, 
and  that,  on  the  other  hand,  the  skin  is  becoming  brittle  while  the  hair 
is  turning  prematurely  gray  and  falling  out;  not  only  does  the  skin  ab- 
sorb  some  of  the  ingredients  of  the  soap  and  passes  them  into  the  blood, 
but  the  soap  also  deprives  the  skin  of  the  fat  which  protects  the  former, 
and  makes  it  brilliant  and  flexible.  If  anybody  discontinues  the  use-  of 
soap,  he  will  show  at  first  perhaps  an  unsightly  skin,  but  as  soon  as  the 
latter  has  regained  its  natural  fatty  covering,  cold  water  alone  will  then 
take  away  all  the  impurities.  All  medicinal  essences,  oils,  tinctures, 
etc.,  are  as  useless  as  "  hairseed  for  the  bald  head,"  for  they  can  never 
effect  that  fine  transparency  of  the  blood  color  in  which  the  enlivening 
charm  of  beautiful  limbs  consists.  On  the  other  hand,  even  the  most 
brittle  skin  will  improve  at  the  same  ratio  as  the  blood  gets  purified,  be- 
come soft  like  velvet,  supple,  acquire  a  lustre  as  if  treated  with  oil  and 
remain  so  even  into  old  age,  if  the  body  enjoys  daily  fresh  air  and  exer- 
cise, cold  washings  or  baths,  and  if  a  natural  diet  is  observed. 

Dry  rubbings  or  such  with  alcohol  or  eau  de  cologne,  etc.,  the  use  of 
sharp,  so-called  medicinal  soaps,  rubbings  with  sand  or  glycerine,  etc., 
can  at  best  produce  the  chalky  color  of  a  corpse,  a  color  which  may  be 
called  beautiful  by  hysteric  people.  All  these  practices  may  temporarily 
give  the  skin  a  smooth  appearance  by  removing  the  epidermis,  the  nat- 
ural protection  of  the  bod)-;  they  are  just  as  perverted  as  cleaning  silver- 
ware  with  sand.  We  wish  to  mention  here  also  the  fact  that  the  abnormal 
growth  of  hair  on  some  parts  of  the  skin  indicates  an  encumbrance  of  the 
body.  The  pulling  out  of  such  hairs  will  promote  their  growth  still  more. 
All  nostrums  for  coloring  or  removing  hair  are  of  no  avail,  the  same  as 
the  electric  needle. 

The  skin  is  one  of  the  most  important  organs  of  the  body,  and  while 
everybody  knows  that  we  cannot  live  without  air,  but  very  few  realize 
the  great  importance  of  fresh  air  not  only  for  the  lungs  but  also  for  the 
skin;  the  majority  of  the  people  is  still  unaware  of  the  beneficial  effects 
of  sleeping  with  a  window  open,  of  the  air,  light,  and  sun  bath.  We  do 
not  only  impede  the  excretory  functions  of  the  skin  by  wearing  too  heavy 
f  woolen)  clothing,  but  also  weaken  thereby  our  power  of  resistance 
against  the  changes  of  the  weather.  Nothing  hardens  our  constitution 
more  than  the  wearing  of  porous  linen  next  to  the  body  and  frequent  air 
and  snu  baths.  By  such  means  even  the  most  stubborn  skin  diseases 
will  easily  and  agrccabh  heal,— without  the  use  of  the  now  celebrated 
radium  which  will  bring  to  many  patients  nothing  but  disappointment 
and  like  some  other  "  great  discoveries  "  will  soon  sink  into  oblivion. 

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Leukorrhea. 

We  spoke  about  fontanels  in  another  passage,  called  asthma  a  chronic 
inflammation  and  a  curative  effort  of  the  body,  and  arc  going  to  discourse 
now  on  another  condition,  the  leukorrhea  of  the  female  sex,  the  wrong 
treatment  or  suppression  of  which  produces  all  possible  other  diseases 
from  inflammations  to  tumors,  spreading  to  other  organs. 

This  form  of  disease  also,  which  may  appear  in  the  most  varied  and 
troublesome  forms,  has  its  origin  in  an  effort  of  the  body  to  expel  impuri- 
ties. That  this  act  of  self-healing  apparently  requires  a  long  time  is 
easily  understood  if  we  consider  that  only  single  organs — in  this  case  the 
mucous  membranes  of  the  vagina — have  to  do  the  whole  work  of  excretion 
and  that  the  many  mistakes  in  the  method  of  living,  for  instance  irri- 
tating diet,  wrong  treatment  of  the  skin,  medicines  (used  in  rinsing  the 
vagina)  render  the  elimination  of  morbid  matter  an  endless  task.  The 
fevers,  irregular  and  excessive  menses,  pains  in  the  depth  of  the  pelvis 
and  all  parts  of  the  abdomen  and  the  back,  burning  in  the  vagina,  blad- 
der, and  intestines,  dyspepsia,  constipation,  cold  feet,  etc.,  are  nothing 
else  but  necessary  consequences  which  disappear  by  themselves  as  soon 
as  the  real  cause — impurities  of  the  blood — is  removed.  Here  also  the 
natural  method  of  healing  lays  the  principal  stress  upon  the  purification 
of  blood  and  lymph. 

According  to  the  symptoms  the  following  remedies  are  given  homeo- 
pathically:  aconite,  calcaria  carb.,  pulsatilla,  sepia,  sulphur. 

The  simple  treatments  of  the  water  cure  are  able  to  alleviate  the 
sometimes  almost  unbearable  itching  in  the  sexual  organs  and  anus, 
making  the  condition  of  the  patients  more  endurable  and  effecting  by  a 
purification  of  the  system  a  complete  regeneration  in  the  course  of  from 
three  to  four  months.  One  of  the  local  treatments  is  sitting  on  cold 
water  from  three  to  ten  minutes,  five  times  daily;  this  splendid  applica- 
tion makes  the  rinsing  of  the  vagina  unnecessary.  Care  of  the  skin  : 
weekly  three  sheet-packs  around  the  abdomen  (short  bandage),  three 
washings  of  the  chest  and  one  of  the  whole  body,  fresh  air,  sunshine,  and 
strictly  non-irritating  diet.  By  this  method  the  homeopathic  medicine  in 
connection  with  the  water  and  diet  cure  will  render  the  diseased  condition 
what  it  should  be  according  to  the  laws  of  nature:  a  purification,  a  self- 
healing  act  of  the  body  which  by  ridding  itself  of  a  mass  of  poison  also 
gains  full  health  and  vigor. 

Hemorrhoids. 

What  has  been  said  about  leukorrhea  also  refers  to  the  hemorrhoids 
of  the  male  sex,  with  the  difference  that  this  ailment  has  its  origin  in  a 
more  serious  morbid  encumbrance  of  the  body,  either  acquired  or  in- 
herited, and  therefore  needs  a  longer  time  for  healing.  The  usual  allo- 
pathic treatment  by  tieing  up,  cauterization,  or  operation  of  the  piles  has 

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been  referred  to  as  a  most  injurious  practice;  we  would  advise  all  those 
suffering  from  this  disagreeable  ailment  to  be  patient  and  persevering,  as 
the  often  recurring  hemorrhages  are  really  a  sign  of  an  active  natural 
healing  power  of  the  organism,  by  discharging  plenty  of  virulent  morbid 
matter;  the  regeneration  of  heavily  encumbered  organs  into  their  normal 
state  requires  time,  and  all  hasty,  forcible  operations  will  have  the  most 
fatal  results. 

The  most  effective  water-treatment  is  sitting  on  water  for  ten  min- 
nutes,  by  which  a  cooling  of  the  heat  in  the  intestines  is  effected  at  once, 
and  the  patient  will  soon  learn  to  appreciate  this  application.  Pulsatilla 
is  generally  given  as  a  homeopathic  remedy. 

Blood-Poisoning. 

During  the  last  decades  all  diseases  have  become  more  frequent  and 
have  assumed  a  more  dangerous  character  on  account  of  the  increasing 
corruption  of  blood  and  lymph;  even  small  injuries  are  becoming  more 
and  more  fatal,  partly  because  the  blood-corruption  has  diminished  the 
natural  healing  power  of  man  in  a  lamentable  degree;  mostly,  however, 
because  all  the  pretendedly  disinfecting  remedies,  for  instance  carbolic 
acid,  frequently  cause  blood-poisoning. 

Dr.  Bilfinger,  well  known  in  Germany  as  a  homeopathic  and  hydro- 
pathic physician  as  well  as  an  excellent  author,  writes  in  such  an  able 
way  regarding  this  subject  that  we  let  follow  here  one  of  his  articles 
Kneipp-Blaetier,  1892): 

"The  cases  in  which  apparently  healthy  young  persons  suddenly 
succumb  to  blood-poisoning  following  a  slight  injury  are  on  the  increase. 

"A  few  weeks  ago,  in  Stuttgart,  such  a  case  rightly  caused  a  sensa- 
tion. A  young  student  of  medicine  who  was  just  going  to  pass  his  exami- 
nation, contracted  a  blister  on  the  heel  by  wearing  a  too  tight  shoe  on 
occasion  of  a  little  excursion.  'Artfully  '—did  he  not  have  studied  medi- 
cine at  celebrated  universities  ?— he  opened  the  blister  by  means  of  a  pair 
of  scissors  disinfected  by  carbolic  acid.  He  paid  no  further  attention  to 
this  little  injury,  but  after  a  few  days  he  took  sick  with  violent  fever 
caused  by  an  inflammation  of  the  blistered  part.  The  consulted  physi- 
cian prescribes  quinine  and  ice-bags,  but  the  former  disagrees  with  the 
stomach  and  the  latter  has  to  be  replaced  by  water  compresses. 

"As  the  patient  continually  grows  worse,  the  most  renowned  surgeon 
of  the  capital  is  employed,  but  without  avail.  The  young  student  of 
medicine,  only  a  few  days  ago  apparently  a  picture  of  health,  the  only 
son  of  his  mother  who  justly  set  her  pride  in  her  well-bred,  industrious 
son,  the  hope  of  the  family,  was  tin-  prey  of  death  inside  of  a  week.— in 
consequence  of  a  blister  caused  by  a  tight  shoe. 

"  Is  there  anything  which  shows  more  clearly  the  inadequacy  oi  the 
allopathic  school  of  medicine  than  this  case?  The  poor  fellow  who  up 
to  the  time  of  this  accident  had  seemingly  enjoyed  the  best  of   health  and 

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endowed  himself  with  the  latest  acquisitions  of  medical  science,  is  treated 
by  'medical  authorities,' — and  the  end  of  all  this  is  that  the  young  and 
vigorous  man  becomes  within  a  few  days  the  victim  of  a  '  modern  scien- 
tific treatment  '  of  an  insignificant  injury. 

' '  I  think  such  cases  speak  a  very  eloquent  language.  Now  I  will 
mention  a  case  which  I  have  experienced  myself,  so  that  nobody  can  say 
I  only  want  to  criticise  but  cannot  do  better  myself.  A  young  servant 
girl  jestingly  quarreled  at  home  with  a  boy;  he  strikes  after  her  and  she 
wants  to  strike  back  but  unfortunately  hits  with  the  palm  of  her  right 
hand  in  the  shortly  before  used  steel  pen  which  the  boy  had  in  his  outer 
coat  pocket.  The  pen  which  stuck  fast  in  the  palm  could  only  be  removed 
with  great  difficulty  as  it  had  pierced  deeply  into  the  hand.  Severe  pain 
appeared  during  the  night,  the  whole  hand  swelled,  violent  fever  set  in, 
and  the  pain  extended  through  the  whole  arm. 

"  I  was  called  the  next  day,  and  although  I  am  generally  not  easily 
scared,  the  wound  seemed  to  be  very  serious  according  to  its  whole  origin, 
but  I  encouraged  the  patient  and  began  energetically  with  vapor  and 
compresses  of  pewter-grass  tea  (eqiiisetuvi  arvense)  to  extract  as  far  as 
possible  the  poison  which  had  penetrated  the  tissues  of  the  palm.  Those 
natural  applications  also  proved  excellent  in  this  particular  and  most 
serious  case.  After  a  few  days  the  fever  disappeared,  the  swelling  of  the 
arm  and  hand  disappeared,  and  before  the  week  was  over  the  girl  was 
able  to  resume  her  usual  work.     Facts  tell!  " 

Blood  poisoning  is  treated  according  to  the  natural  method  of  healing 
as  follows:  for  internal  use  apis  is  given  homeopathically,  especially  after 
the  sting  of  a  poisonous  fly,  etc. ;  aconite  in  case  of  fever  with  a  dry  skin; 
belladonna  in  case  af  fever  with  a  moist  skin  and  traumatic  erysipelas; 
coculus  if  brain  and  nerves  are  effected,  he*w  sulphuris  if  ulcers  will  not 
suppurate. 

For  local  treatment  we  mention  here  a  few  approved  home  remedies, 
one  of  which  might  always  be  at  hand.  The  covering  with  a  slice  of 
lemon  at  once  alleviates  pain  and  itching,  even  in  case  of  old  and  scratched 
mosquito  bites;  a  plaster  of  wet  clay,  whey-cheese,  moist  earth  or  moss, 
compresses  of  moist  linen,  etc.,  soon  bring  relief.  The  Deutsche  Lchrer- 
Zeitung  ("  German  Teachers'  Journal")  published  the  following  item: 
' '  The  news  of  the  blood-poisoning  of  a  Berlin  teacher  by  the  piercing  of 
an  inky  pen  below  a  nail  causes  me  to  announce  a  proved  remedy  against 
such  injuries.  This  remedy  is  nothing  else  but  the  immersion  of  the 
wounded  part  in  sour  milk  or  buttermilk  which  has  to  be  renewed  about 
three  times  after  it  begins  to  warm  by  the  heat  of  the  wound.  This  rem- 
edy is  successfully  used  in  West  Prussia  against  the  bite  of  serpents  and 
and  has  also  proved  salutary  in  case  of  phosphor  poisoning.  My  own  son 
has  been  saved  from  blood-poisoning  by  that  remedy.  On  a  farm  in  West 
Prussia,  while  striking  a  match,  part  of  the  phosphor  flew  off  and  got 
under  his  nail.     In  a  short  time  the  whole  arm  was  swollen.     He  rode  to 

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the  neighboring  dairy  farm,  took  at  once  a  large  can  with  sour  milk  and 

put  his  whole  arm  in  it.  He  immediately  felt  relief.  He  renewed  the 
milk  three  times,  and  within  two  hours  all  danger  was  removed  and  arm 
and  hand  were  like  before.  I  should  rejoice  if  many  could  be  helped  by 
this  simple  remedy." 

First  Help  in  Accidents. 

We  think  it  would  be  a  neglect  to  write  in  this  popular  book  nothing 
about  the  first  help  in  case  of  accidents,  as  in  most  instances  such  help 
will  have  to  be  given  by  laymen.  The  attendants  should  keep  calm, 
cool-headed,  and  with  it  a  clear  view  and  presence  of  mind,  that  they 
may  be  able  to  do  the  best  with  the  available  remedies. 

The  assistants  have  to  cleanse  their  hands  as  well  as  possible.  Then 
they  should  clean  and  close  the  wounds  and  stop  the  bleeding;  this  is 
effected  as  soon  as  the  outer  atmospheric  pressure  is  re-established  and 
thereby  the  outward  pressure  of  the  blood  counteracted.  This  is  best 
accomplished  by  making  a  bandage  of  something  impenetrable  that  can 
easily  be  gotten;  for  instance  take  a  piece  of  wTadding,  immerse  it  into 
hot  or  cold  water,  milk,  etc.,  as  it  may  be  convenient,  and  put  it  on  the 
wound;  or  close  the  bleeding  wound  by  covering  the  place  with  a  piece 
of  raw  meet  or  a  clean  silver  coin,  if  nothing  else  can  be  had. 

A  little  accident  in  daily  life  may  prove  what  presence  of  mind  can 
accomplish  even  under  the  most  unfavorable  conditions.  A  man,  while 
traveling  in  a  railroad  car,  breaks  a  bottle  and  seriously  cuts  his  wrist 
and  palm,  causing  heavy  bleeding  and  great  excitement  among  the  other 
passengers.  A  young  woman  who  wTas  just  going  to  feed  her  one-year 
old  baby  with  mush,  puts  a  part  of  the  latter  on  a  piece  of  linen  and  cov- 
ers the  wound  with  it.  The  physician  at  the  point  of  destination  who 
then  removed  still  another  glass  splinter  from  the  hand  was  delighted 
over  the  good  effect  of  the  original  bandage. 

Two  other  original  treatments  of  pinched  fingers  caused  by  slamm.ng 
a  door  may  be  mentioned  here:  in  one  case  alleviation  of  the  pain  was 
effected  by  immersion  of  the  injured  limb  in  a  small  dish  of  pot-cheese, 
in  the  other  case  by  immersion  in  a  cucumber  cut  apart  in  the  middle.  If 
possible  the  injured  limb  should  always  be  kept  upright. 

Burns  and  Scalds. 

In  regard  to  burns  and  scalds  we  let  report  our  Swedish  investigator: 
"To  make  the  reader  at  once  acquainted  with  the  rational  treatment  of 
scalds,  I  shall  relate  the  following  truthful  story.  In  a  fire  an  infant  was 
badly  burnt  on  different  parts  of  the  body,  having  a  narrow  escape  from 
the  burning  house.  In  the  yard  stood  a  basket  full  of  wadding  which 
was  to  1><-  used  lor  a  quilt.  Into  that  the  almost  naked  child  was  thrown. 
The  cotton  at  once  adhered  to  the  burns, 'and  all  attempts  to  liberate  the 
child    from   its  envelopment    had    to   be   abandoned,  as   the  operation  was 

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apparently  too  painful.  But  this  was  a  happy  circumstance  for  the  in- 
fant, as  the  serious  burns  covered  with  cotton  healed  up  quickly.  In  this 
case  the  principles  of  Dr.  Bolles  were  followed,  although  unconsciously. 
His  maxim  is  to  cover  the  burns  with  cotton  and  not  to  move  or  change 
the  bandage.  The  reader  will  remember  the  great  forest  fires  in  the 
United  States  in  1893.  What  mostly  caused  my  pity  in  that  instance  was 
the  description  of  the  misery  of  the  unfortunate  people  when  the  physi- 
cians were  going  to  change  the  bandages  and  plasters.  So  ignorant  are 
American  physicians," — and,  we  may  rightly  add,  also  the  European 
allopaths. 

Another  kind  of  treatment  may  be  mentioned  by  relating  the  follow- 
ing accident.  A  woman  scalded  her  face  badly  while  washing;  in  her 
pain  she  at  once  immersed  her  head  into  cold  water.  Her  husband  put 
her  to  bed,  cut  a  kind  of  mask  out  of  old  soft  linen,  which  after  wetting 
it  in  water  at  once  adhered  to  the  face.  He  did  not  remove  this  first 
plaster  but  effected  cooling  by  the  laying  on  of  other  moist  pieces  of  linen. 
The  scalds  healed  perfectly,  as  all  the  other  precepts  had  been  truly 
followed. 

Another  approved  method  is  to  immerse  a  piece  of  linen  into  good 
sweet  oil,  fat  or  milk  and  lay  it  on  the  scalds,  and  to  take  further  care  of 
cooling  the  first  covering  by  putting  on  cold  wet  compresses;  if  the  latter 
should  have  become  dry  by  laying  on  too  long  and  should  stick  together 
— a  circumstance  which  causes  the  returning  of  the  pain — they  must  be 
thoroughly  wetted  to  facilitate  the  removal  and  renewing. 

If  the  clothes  are  burning  on  the  body,  the  person  should  throw 
himself  down  at  once  and  try  to  stifle  the  burning  or  smouldering  gar- 
ments by  rolling  on  the  floor,  or  if  somebody  comes  to  his  rescue  that 
part}'  should  smother  the  flames  by  covering  the  person  with  dry  or  wet 
clothes,  bedding,  etc;  the  apparel  should  be  carefully  removed  by  cutting 
it  off,  with  the  exception  of  all  those  parts  which  stick  to  the  wounds. 
Blisters  should  not  be  tampered  with.  In  case  of  smaller  scalds  or  burns 
it  is  sufficient  to  exclude  the  air  by  covering  the  affected  places  by  sprink- 
ling them  over  with  flour  of  cereals  or  pulses. 

Sexual  Diseases. 

We  regret  that  we  have  to  be  so  brief  in  our  treatises,  especially  in 
the  following  on  sexual  diseases.  In  no  other  form  of  disease  the  incom- 
patible contraries  in  diagnosis  and  treatment  between  the  natural  and  the 
allopathic  method  of  healing,  and  the  complete  inconsistency  and  insuffi- 
ciency of  allopathy  in  diagnosis  and  treatment  are  shown  more  distinctly. 

The  views  of  the  different  allopathic  authorities  contradict  each  other 
so  much  that  the  reader  believes  himself  in  a  labyrinth. 

The  Frenchman  Ricord,  who  was  the  first  to  distinguish  between 
gonorrhea,  soft  and  hard  shanker  and  who  originated  the  now  fortunately 
forgotten  vaccination  against  syphilis,  declares  in  his  essay  which  has 

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been  translated  into  all  European  languages,  that  gonorrhea  was  only  a 
small  matter,  while  shanker  was  a  very  serious  disease. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  English  surgeon  Astley  Cooper,  one  of  the 
greatest  physicians  of  his  time,  concludes  his  essay  on  sexual  diseases 
with  the  following  words:  "  The  difficulty  in  the  treatment  of  gonorrhea 
on  the  one  side  and  of  syphilis  on  the  other  are  not  to  be  compared  with 
each  other.  The  latter  can  be  cured  by  a  child,  but  gonorrhea  is  a  dis- 
ease which  baffles  the  experience  of  the  most  learned  physicians." 

The  German  specialist  Frankel  speaks  about  sexual  diseases  as  fol- 
lows: "The  nature  of  the  contagious  poison  is  of  minor  importance, 
everything  depends  on  the  more  or  less  favorable  soil  the  poison  finds  for 
development  in  the  body."  This  view  is  often  clearly  confirmed  by  the 
experience  of  daily  life. 

After  these  contradictory  views  of  allopathy  regarding  diseases  of  so 
far-reaching  importance,  we  shall  want  to  hear  the  explanation  of  the 
natural  method  of  healing:  Sexual  diseases  have  their  origin  not  only  in 
self-poisons  (auto-toxins)  like  most  other  diseases,  but  also  in  easily 
transferable  poisons  of  excretion  which  are  transmitted  from  one  person 
to  another. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  clearly  shows  that  gonorrhea  is  really  the 
same  what  a  cold  is  for  the  nose,  i.  e.  catarrh  of  the  urethra.  We  do  not 
use  this  expression  in  the  sense  of  careless  people  who  play  with  danger, 
but  as  a  strictly  scientific  term.  Gonorrhea  is  a  catarrhal  inflammation 
of  the  mucous  membrane  of  the  urethra,  affecting  the  mucous  membranes 
of  the  whole  abdomen  sympathetically  and  simultaneously.  We  can  ob- 
serve the  signs  of  inflammation  in  the  corresponding  part  of  the  eye, 
commencing  almost  from  the  pupil  and  reaching  to  the  edge  of  the  iris. 
We  can  also  see — and  this  is  of  great  moment — that  only  such  people  are 
afflicted  with  gonorrhea  whose  mucous  membrane  is  still  in  a  healthy  and 
active  condition,  while — and  herein  lies  the  second  important  point — soft 
and  hard  shanker  are  only  found  in  persons  having  a  scurf-rim  in  the  iris 
and  having  an  inactive  mucous  membrane. 

Although  we  have  examined  many  people  suffering  from  sexual  dis- 
eases, we  have  never  found  that  those  suffering  from  gonorrhea  had  the 
red-brown  signs  of  vaccination  or  quinine-poisoning  around  the  pupil  and 
that  those  affected  with  shanker  always  had  the  signs  of  catarrhal  defects 
in  the  iris,  combined  with  a  heavy  scurf-rim;  one  gains  almost  the  posi- 
tive impression  that  these  signs  start  from  the  scurf-rim,  so  distinctly  is 
the  connection  between  them. 

Nothing   needs   to   be   said   in    regard   to    the  allopathic   treatment  of 

sexual  diseases,  the  obvious  injuriousness  of  which  we  have  repeatedly 

explained;  the  whole  effort  of  these  treatments  is  directed  upon  the  pos- 
sible quickest  suppression  of  the  symptoms  of  the  disease. 

To  do  away  quickly  with  the  efflux  in  gonorrhea  is  not  an  act  of 

cleverness  but  a  very  serious  mistake,  for  the  sharp  medicaments  inter> 

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fere  with  the  ability  of  the  mucous  membrane  to  excrete  the  morbid  mat- 
ter, and  this  process  which  is  thereby  made  chronic  must  naturally  con- 
tinue in  other  organs.  On  the  other  hand,  the  natural  method  of  healing 
never  suppresses  this  efflux,  but  assists  nature  in  the  act  of  excreting  and 
removing  the  poison  and  thus  ensures  a  quicker  and  perfect  cure.  Con- 
sequently there  is  no  reason  to  get  scared  if  in  the  application  of  our  cure 
the  efflux  increases  during  the  first  two  weeks,  as  it  will  cease  between 
the  third  and  fifth  week,  the  catarrh  having  been  cured  naturally  and 
perfectly. 

The  treatment  consists  in  strictly  non-irritating  diet  (principally  raw 
food — fruits  and  nuts),  proper  care  of  the  skin  by  air  baths,  whole  and 
part-ablutions  of  the  body  and  frequent  sitting  on  water.  The  principal 
homeopathic  remedies  are:  for  the  female  sex,  pulsatilla;  for  the  male, 
mix  vomica.     Sulphur  is  often  given  in  connection  with  both  remedies. 

In  discussing  soft  and  hard  shanker  we  wish  to  call  the  attention  of 
the  reader,  first,  to  the  fact  that  by  allopathic  treatment  the  harmless  soft 
shanker  can  easily  develop  into  hard  shanker;  that  in  southern  Europe, 
for  instance  Malta,  etc. ,  both  diseases  are  regarded  as  something  common 
and  easily  to  heal  without  medical  treatment;  that  syphilis  is  merely  an 
artificial  product, — the  consequence  of  the  allopathic  treatment  with  mer- 
cury, a  fact  which  is  clearly  proven  by  the  circumstance  that  we  find  the 
symptoms  of  so-called  secondary  and  tertiary  syphilis  in  the  most  dis- 
tinct manner  with  people  whose  vocation  brings  them  into  contact  with 
mercury  (miners,  thermometer-makers,  etc.)  but  who  have  never  been 
afflicted  with  sexual  diseases.  We  cannot  therefore  speak  of  syphilis  as 
a  disease  in  the  usual  meaning  of  the  word,  but  really  as  mercury  and 
iodine  poisoning. 

One  of  the  best  works  on  this  subject  has  been  written  by  Prof.  Dr. 
Josef  Hermann,  formerly  chief-physician  of  the  Vienna- Wieden  hospital; 
it  is  entitled:  "The  Mercury  Treatment  is  a  Crime  Against  Whole  Hu- 
manity." The  author,  an  allopathic  physician  himself,  had  been  forced 
by  many  experiences  and  the  sincere  love  of  mankind  to  combat  his  own 
school,  and  during  two  generations  (from  1843  until  his  death  in  1902) 
he  stood  in  the  foremost  ranks  in  the  fight  against  vaccination  and  every 
other  medicinal  superstition,  in  spite  of  all  enmities  of  the  allopathic 
physicians. 

By  the  natural  method  of  healing  the  cure  of  both  forms  of  shanker 
can  be  treated  effectively,  radically  and  also  in  a  comparatively  short  time 
(from  four  to  six  months),  but  we  expressly  remark  that  in  all  our  dis- 
cussions we  mean  purely  original  cases  which  have  not  yet  been  treated 
allopathically.  Knowing  that  venereal  diseases  are  the  result  of  a  deep- 
going  scrofulous  deterioration  of  lymph  and  blood,  we  give  homeopathi- 
cally  calcarea  carb.,  sulphur,  mix  vomica,  pulsatilla,  or  mercurius  vivus. 
We  regulate  the  movement  of  the  bowels  by  a  very  strict  fruit  diet  and 
take  proper  care  of  the  skin  by  air  baths,  whole  and  part-ablutions  of  the 

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body,  sitting  on  water,  etc.  The  local  treatment  consists  of  cold  water 
applications  upon  the  suppurating  parts,  thus  exciting  the  latter  to  the 
possible  most  abundant  excretions.  It  is  very  probable  that  under  such  a 
treatment,  just  like  in  the  case  of  gonorrhea,  an  enlargement  of  the  ulcers 
and  increased  excretions  set  in  which  are  sometimes  accompanied  by 
fever.  In  the  treatment  of  these  particular  diseases  nobody  should  be 
alarmed  over  the  increased  activity  of  the  system  in  expelling  impurities, 
symptoms  which  are  falsely  regarded  as  a  change  to  the  worse,  especially 
as  by  a  very  strict  observation  of  the  fruit  diet  the  crisis  will  soon  pass  its 
climax,  followed  by  a  speedy  recovery. 

In  regard  to  venereal  diseases  which  have  already  been  treated  allo- 
pathically,  the  reader  should  carefully  peruse  the  chapter  "Reports  of 
Nature  Cures." 

Acute  Diseases. 

On  account  of  the  importance  of  a  correct  understanding  of  funda- 
mental ideas,  we  will  now  give  a  comprehensive  and  comparative  discus- 
sion of  acute,  chronic,  and  epidemic  diseases.  In  doing  this  we  can  of 
course  not  avoid  repeating  some  points  already  alluded  to. 

Inflammatory ',-  feverish ,  vehement,  or  acute  diseases  are  always  proof  of 
a  still  vigorous  body  trying  to  eliminate  impurities,  and  only  by  false 
treatment  can  they  end  in  death  or  chronic  sickness,  as  the  excessive  heat 
created  by  the  additional  medicine  poisons  will  be  followed  by  gangrene 
causing  death  if  affecting  internal  organs,  or,  in  external  cases,  decay  of 
the  limbs. 

External  inflammations  give  a  picture  of  their  origin  and  course,  and 
similar  appearances  are  going  on  in  the  interior  of  the  body  where  morbid 
matter  is  excreted.  The  inflamed  part  is  swelling  under  a  painful  strain, 
and  as  the  heat  is  rising  it  is  covered  by  a  more  and  more  darkening  red- 
ness; one  can  distinctly  feel  a  knocking  inside  of  it,  and  the  swelling  as 
well  as  the  pain  are  increasing  until  the  morbid  matter  has  become  ripe 
for  excretion;  from  this  moment  on  the  pain  wrill  lessen,  .the  formerly 
hard  tumor  will  become  soft,  the  red  color  is  turned  yellow  by  a  trans- 
parent  yellowish  fluid,  and  the  quasi  well-done  morbid  matter  is  emptied 
in  the  form  of  pus.  The  latter  will  break  its  own  passage  in  all  cases, 
and  no  tumor  should  therefore  be  opened  artificially  and  prematurely. 

Pus  should  be  well  distinguished  from  ichor.  The  former  is  the 
excretion  produced  by  a  naturally  healing  inflammation,  the  result  of  a 
regeneratory  disease;  ichor  (discolored  and  having  a  peculiarly  bad  smell ) 
is  the  result  of  a  gradually  increasing  putrefaction  or  decay  of  organs, 
which  finally  cause  death,  as  the  result  of  a  destructive  or  wasting  dis- 
ease, for  instance,  phthvsis,  caries  in  consequence  of  diabetes  melitus  or 
mercury  treatment,  paretic  dementia,  suppuration  of  the  kidneys,  etc. 
A  pure  and  perfectly  healed  inflammation  under  the  natural  method  of 
treatment  never  leaves  behind  traces  like  sears,  indurations  or  colorings 

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of  the  skin,  paralytic  conditions,  or  even  continuous  ulcerations  and  other 
chronic  ailments. 

In  all  cases  of  fevers  and  inflammations  we  can  observe  a  gradual 
aggravation  of  the  symptoms  and  consequently  of  the  pain  until  a  climax 
is  reached,  after  which  a  decrease  of  the  symptoms  follows  until  the  con- 
valescent generally  feels  better  than  ever  before. 

The  duration  of  such  a  purifying  crisis  is  seven,  nine,  or  fourteen 
days,  and  in  exceptional  cases  it  can  last  even  four  weeks. 

We  generally  find  that  these  important  processes  of  purification  are 
not  appreciated  and  therefore  subjected  to  irrational  treatments  which 
causes  the  gravest  injuries.  A  neglected  and  wrongly  treated  coryza 
(catarrhal  inflammation  of  the  nose),  for  instance,  is  liable  to  effect  sooner 
or  later  the  most  endangering  conditions  and  chronic  diseases.  If  parts 
of  the  excreted  mucus  remain  in  the  bronchial  tubes,  they  will  putrefy  in 
a  short  time  and  may  thus  produce  lung  diseases.  How  many  deaths 
have  been  caused  by  influenza  in  connection  with  the  dangerous  anti- 
pyrin!  Whoever  has  had  a  severe  cold  knows  that  it  is  not  only  accom- 
panied by  a  complete  loss  of  appetite  and  an  apathetic  condition,  but  that 
the  organs  of  the  senses  are  also  most  severely  affected.  And  such  a 
serious  ailment  during  which  all  labor,  all  thinking  and  acting,  can  only 
be  performed  with  the  greatest  exertion,  is  hardly  regarded  a  disease! 
Right  in  the  cure  of  this  ailment  the  complete  helplessness  of  allopathy 
is  shown  in  a  very  significant  manner:  the  process  of  purification  is  sup- 
pressed, and  the  autotoxins  (self-poisons)  are  aggravated  by  medicine 
poisons. 

The  treatment  of  violent  bodily  disturbances  which  appear  during 
the  cure  as  crises — generally  called  sickness — affords  no  difficulties  by 
the  natural  method  of  healing  if  no  mistakes  are  made  and  if  common 
sense  and  sound  reasoning  is  used.  May  every  one  first  impress  upon 
himself  the  golden  words  of  Plutarch:  "Instead  of  using  medicines, 
rather  fast  a  day. ' '  The  patient  should  take  neither  food  nor  drink  until 
a  pronounced  desire  sets  in,  and  then  he  should  eat  only  raw  food  (prin- 
cipally fruits)  and  drink  fresh  water,  but  only  in  small  draughts  accord- 
ing to  his  need.  The  window  should  be  kept  open  day  and  night.  If 
the  patient  is  in  bed,  he  should  be  naked,  i,  e.  without  any  undershirt, 
drawers,  or  nightshirt,  covered  only  with  a  linen  sheet  combined  with  a 
quilt. 

The  Dedsheets  should  not  be  changed  too  often,  and  when  a  change 
becomes  necessary  the  unstarched  linen  should  be  put  into  the  bed  of  the 
patient  the  night  before.  I  have  seen  many  a  betterment  of  patients  turn 
again  into  the  contrary  (to  the  embarrassment  of  the  attendants)  where 
these  rules  had  not  been  observed.  As  a  matter  of  course  the  bedding 
should  be  well  aired  during  the  day  and  put  back  in  its  place  only  in  the 
evening.  Sick  as  well  as  healthy  people  should  rest  with  stretched-out 
body  on  a  hard  support,  best  on  a  bag  or  mattress  of  straw,  and   under 

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the  head  they  should  have  a  round  oblong  pillow  filled  with  straw  or  old 
linen,  instead  of  feathers,  etc. 

If  possible  a  bath-tub  to  be  filled  with  fresh  cold  water  twice  a  week 
should  be  put  near  the  bed  of  the  patient  who  may  then,  according  to 
want,  take  a  whole  bath  of  short  duration  (from  ten  to  twenty  seconds), 
or  enough  water  should  be  kept  ready  that  the  patient  can  at  any  time 
make  a  whole  ablution,  or  an  ablution  of  that  part  of  the  body  which 
requires  special  treatment.  If  the  patient  cannot  serve  himself,  the  nec- 
essary water  treatments  should  be  given  to  him,  and  in  case  part-ablutions 
are  given,  the  whole  body  should  frequently  be  exposed  to  the  air  (air 
baths). 

In  the  treatment  of  the  fever  patient  it  is  only  necessary  to  follow 
his  desires,  and  not  to  force  anything  on  him.  Against  this  most  impor- 
tant principle  in  the  treatment  of  the  sick  the  gravest  offenses  are  made, 
especially  by  well-meaning,  urging  requests  to  partake  of  some  favorite 
dishes  or  of  some  "wholesome  "  decoctions.  The  absence  of  any  desire 
for  food  is  easily  explained  and  quite  natural.  The  body  is  working 
with  its  whole  force  to  dissolve  and  expel  the  morbid  matter  and  has 
no  strength  left  for  the  digestion  of  food;  besides,  the  morbid  matter 
after  dissolving  itself  from  its  mucous  envelopments  takes  its  way  to  the 
greater  part  through  the  stomach  to  be  carried  out  in  an  upward  or  down- 
ward direction,  and  the  poisonous  excretions  have  by  themselves  alone 
a  dissonant  effect  upon  the  stomach,  a  circumstance  which  is  indicated  by 
the  heavily  coated  tongue  or  vomiting  of  mucous  matter,  If  one  crisis 
has  passed,  the  next  one  sets  in,  and  so  on  till  the  body  is  again  in  its 
normal  condition.  Sometimes  the  fever  appears  more  violent,  but  it  is 
always  of  short  duration,  i.  e.  as  long  as  the  dissolved  poisonous  matter  I 
is  circulating  in  the  blood  and  until  it  is  finally  expelled  by  larger  excre-  ' 
tions  of  the  skin  and  the  depurative  organs. 

Thus  fever,  which  is  a  very  important  factor  in  the  restoration  of 
health,  is  merely  a  symptom  of  healing  and  is  not  effected,  as  is  often 
erroneously  assumed,  by  some  external  causes  (climate,  bacilli;  etc.);  it  is 
the  action  of  the  vital  force  which  defends  and  restores;  it  is  produced  by 
the  circumstance  that  the  body  is  working  under  high  pressure,  that  the 
circulation  of  the  blood  is  accelerated  and  the  temperature  of  the  body  is 
increased,  while  its  extremities  become  cold  from  time  to  time  until  the 
climax  is  passed.  Skin,  tongue,  and  throat  are  hot  and  dry  and  require 
cooling  which  can  best  be  effected  by  the  already  mentioned  treatments 
with  fresh  water,  thorough  wetting  of  the  scalp,  air  baths  and  drinking 
of  cold  water. 

Tlie  appearances  in  crises  are  very  numerous  and  changing;  at  first 
appi  ar  weakness,  drowsiness,  vexation,  irritability,  strange  appetites  and 
thoughts,  uneasy  sensations  like  stinging,  itching,  rushing,  increasing  to 
the  severest  pain,  caused  by  the  excreted  sharp  poisons  which  irritate 
tin-  nervous  system;  if  the  motor  nerves  are  irritated,  the  symptoms  are: 
involuntary  convulsions  and  movements  of  the  limbs,  etc.,  lifelessness  of 

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the  hand.;  and  feet,  swelling  of  the  glands.  Itching  and  scaling  of  the 
skin  appear  repeatedly  accompanied  by  diarrhea  in  which  the  sharpness 
of  the  excrements  irritates  the  walls  of  the  intestines,  etc.,  etc. 

The  appearance  of  cold  feet  during  the  climax  of  a  crisis  is  a  sign 
that  there  are  feverous  conditions  in  the  abdomen,  followed  by  constipa- 
tion. By  a  strict  fruit  diet,  or  still  better  a  few  days'  fasting,  the  latter 
will  soon  give  way  to  plentiful  evacuations,  while  the  tension  in  the 
abdomen  is  relieved  by  the  expulsion  of  the  troublesome  gases.  Not 
enough  can  be  warned  here  against  the  prevalent  use  of  cathartics,  min- 
eral waters,  massage,  electricity,  syringes,  etc.,  which  give  but  momen- 
tary relief  and  leave  the  digestive  organs  in  a  weaker  condition  than  they 
were  before.  Injections  into  the  intestines  (flushing  of  the  colon)  are 
regarded  by  many  as  a  natural  method  of  treatment,  but  wrongly  so.  All 
such  applications  are  just  as  erroneous  as  the  rinsing  of  the  vagina,  for 
something  is  forced  into  an  organ  whose  physiological  function  is  excre- 
tion. The  intestines  may  absorb  the  water,  but  the  system  frees  itself 
again  from  it  by  repeated  eruptions  of  sweat,  and  the  real  cause  of  con- 
stipation remains  untouched. 

Sleeplessness  is  another  symptom  connected  with  crises;  it  may  often 
keep  on  for  two  or  more  weeks  and  is  remarkable  for  the  circumstance 
that  the  patient  who  can  hardly  close  his  eyes  is  not  weakened  thereby 
and  can  perform  his  regular  daily  work  without  the  slightest  fatigue. 
The  explanation  for  this  appearance  is  given  by  the  fact  that  the  vital 
force  is  working  under  high  pressure.  Frequent  air  baths  and  cold  wash- 
ings of  the  head  will  alleviate  the  sleeplessness. 

All  these  partly  very  painful  symptoms  mean  a  gain  for  the  whole 
organism;  they  are  a  sign  of  healing,  and  the  patient  should  therefore 
feel  content,  in  spite  of  all  pains.  Increased  health  is  the  lasting  enjoy- 
ment after  a  crisis  has  been  treated  according  to  the  natural  method  of 
healing,  and  this  betterment  keeps  on  until  a  new  crisis  is  matured  when 
some  more  morbid  matter  which  was  latent  in  the  system  enters  into  cir- 
culation and  is  excreted;  complete  recovery  is  finally  attained  when  the 
body  has  expelled  all  encumbrances. 

The  natural  method  of  healing  itself  causes  no  pain,  not  even  incon- 
venience. All  the  pains  come  from  the  dissolved  impurities  and  morbid 
matter  which  have  been  latent  in  the  system  and  which  are  now  expelled 
from  the  bod)';  if  we,  therefore,  do  not  want  to  suppress  the  symptoms 
but  to  remove  their  real  cause,  the  inevitable  troubles  must  be  patiently 
endured,  for  without  struggle  there  is  no  victory,  and  under  the  nature 
cure  the  reappearing  ailments  will  be  less  painful.  If  at  such  moments 
anxious  people  would  like  to  call  a  physician  opposing  the  nature  cure, 
they  should  bear  in  mind  that  he  would  destroy  by  false  treatments — 
under  the  severest  condemnations  of  the  rational  methods  of  healing — 
the  achievements  of  weeks  and  hinder  the  ultimate  recovery  which  the 
crises  would  surely  bring  to  the  patient. 

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Chronic  Diseases. 

For  all  chronic  diseases  a  natural  manner  of  living  means  an  invigo- 
ration  of  the  system  and  a  gradual  restoration  of  the  normal  or  healthy 
state  of  the  body,  after  the  real  causes  of  the  diseases  have  been  elimi- 
nated. Corpulence  as  well  as  emaciation  disappear,  the  hair  will  become 
thicker  and  stronger,  even  baldheads  will  be  covered  again  with  their 
original  ornament,  the  brown  and  dark  eye  will  become  brighter  and 
brighter  and  finally  blue:  even  old  and  neglected  ruptures  will  gradually 
disappear;  the  voice  will  improve,  the  fallow  and  emaciated  face  will 
attain  a  healthy  and  rosy  complexion,  the  whole  system  will  become  nor- 
mal again.  Beauty  is  health,  and  a  beautiful  and  harmoniously  built 
body  can  only  be  attained  by  living  in  harmony  with  nature 

The  success  of  natural  methods  is  most  surprising  in  cases  of  female 
diseases,  even  in  those  of  sterility,  because  women  generally  show  more 
endurance  and  take  the  matter  more  seriously.  It  is  but  self-evident  that 
such  transformations  are  not  ahvays  easily  and  quickly  performed,  more- 
over that  the  cure  requires  the  intelligence,  patience,  and  perseverance  of 
the  patient. 

If  somebody  becomes  bedridden — only  this  condition  is  nowadays 
called  sick — on  account  of  an  accident  (for  instance  anger,  fright,  excite- 
ment, cold,  or  a  cold  drink,  etc.),  all  are  inclined  to  look  at  one  of  those 
incidents  as  the  real  cause.  This  view  is  wholly  wrong,  for  hundreds  are 
simultaneously  exposed  to  the  same  influences,  and  the  patient  himself 
has  done  the  very  same  thing  many  times  before,  without  the  same  con- 
sequences. We  have  to  seek  the  real  cause  in  the  circumstance  that  the 
morbid  encumbrance  of  the  body,  i.  e.  the  before  latent  foreign  matter, 
now  becomes  perceivable  in  the  sudden  flash  of  an  acute  disease  which 
cannot  be  misunderstood  any  more. 

The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  gives  us  the  most  reliable  information 
how  long  this  morbid  encumbrance  dates  back  and  which  parts  of  the 
body  are  most  encumbered,  i.  e.  suffering  from  chronic  disease. 

The  duration  of  a  perfect  cure  will  now  be  evident  to  the  reader:  it 
will  take  as  long  a  time  as  the  body  needs  to  expel  the  foreign  or  morbid 
matter;  but  we  can  favorably  influence  the  change  of  matter  and  accel- 
erate all  vital  processes  going  on  in  the  body  by  endeavoring  to  live  in 
harmony  with  nature  and  her  inexorable  laws  which  are  truly  interpreted 
by  the  natural  method  of  healing. 

The  process  of  regeneration  within  the  body,  i.  e.  the  dissolution  and 
excretion  of  foreign  matter  and  the  formation  of  new  and  pure  blood  ami 
tissues,  cannot  take  place,  however,  without  externally  visible  signs. 
These  appearances  are  called  fever,  inflammation,  etc.,  and  according  to 
allopathic  views  the  normal  state  of  the  body  is  restored  by  quickly  sup- 
pressing these  external  symptoms,  no  matter  by  what  kind  of  poisons. 

All  such  processes  of  recovery  we  term  "crises,"  which  are  con- 
sequently a  vehement  action  of  the  body  to  dissolve  and   excrete   morbid 

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or  foreign  matter  that  has  encumbered  the  system  sometimes  for  years. 

By  the  natural  method  of  healing  we  see  all  wrongly  treated,  suppressed 
diseases  return  and  free  themselves  in  the  same  succession  as  they  have 
been  stupefied  or  made  latent  by  poisonous  medicaments.  The  body 
reproduces  the  diseases  like  a  phonograph  the  words,  only  in  a  reversed 
order:  the  last  allopathically  treated  ailments  reappear  first;  the  one  sup- 
pressed before  the  last  follows  second,  and  so  on. 

In  every  instance,  before  and  after  the  crisis,  the  taste  of  the  swal- 
lowed medicaments  returns  and  can  be  perceived,  and  even  in  cases  where 
salves  had  been  applied  to  the  skin  the  poisonous  ingredients  reappear  on 
the  surface  of  the  body. 

In  every  single  case  of  chronic  disease  we  have  to  take  into  consider- 
ation in  what  degree  the  patient  is  encumbered  with  morbid  matter.  The 
slightly  encumbered  individual  will  have  to  expect  the  crisis  sooner  and 
in  milder  form;  the  more  heavily  encumbered  person  will  have  to  endure 
graver  crises,  while  the  most  heavily  encumbered  will  have  no  crisis  for 
a  long  period,  as  the  bod}-  is  first  preparing  and  strengthening  itself  for 
the  critical  moment.  In  the  last  case  the  crisis  will  therefore  appear  as 
soon  as  the  body  has  gained  sufficient  strength  for  the  expulsion  of  the 
morbid  matter,  which  always  lays  a  severe  strain  on  the  nervous  system. 

Reports  of  Nature  Cures. 

1.  Chronic  disease  of  the  liver  in  consequence  of  medicinally  treated  in- 
flammation of  this  organ. — A  middle-aged  lady  sought  the  advice  of  an 
hydropathic  physician  concerning  her  old  and  serious  liver  disease.  The 
chronic  sickness  originated  from  an  inflammation  of  the  liver  which  an 
allopathic  physician  had  principally  treated  with  mercury. 

The  hydropathist  sent  her  to  the  showerbath  which  was  applied 
daily  for  several  weeks.  Then  came  a  crisis  in  the  form  of  furuncles 
through  which  undoubtedly  the  mercury  was  being  expelled,  for  as  soon 
as  the  ulcers  healed  up  the  old  inflammation  of  the  liver  reappeared. 
"Now  you  are  cured,"  said  the  physician, — she  was  restored  to  perfect 
health  within  four  weeks.  The  fundamental  cause  in  this  case  is  evident. 
Some  foreign  matter,  perhaps  in  consequence  of  a  cold,  had  settled  upon 
the  liver,  and  this  organ  became  inflamed  in  its  effort  to  throw  it  off. 
Now  the  ' '  plaster  and  pill  faculty  ' '  interfered  with  the  ' '  antiphlogistic  ' ' 
mercury,  stopped  the  process  of  purification,  thus  sapping  the  vigor  of 
the  organism  by  the  administered  poison, — and  the  chronic  disease  was 
complete.  As  soon  as  the  water  cure  had  expelled  the  poison  from  the 
system,  the  body  roused  itself  for  the  old  struggle  against  the  latent  poi- 
sonous matter  which  still  encumbered  the  liver.  The  acute  inflammation 
returned  but  soon  gave  way  to  complete  recovery  by  the  beneficial  effect 
of  the  nature  cure. 

Thus  act  all  the  antipyretic  medicines,  or  the  vaccination  lancet,  or 
the  cupping-glass,  or  the  leeches:  they  prematurely  stop  the  acute  disease 

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— the  healing  process — by  weakening  the  organism,  and  these  practices 
either  kill  the  patient,  or  make  him  the  victim  of  a  chronic  disease. 
Therefore  the  severe  after-pains  which  follow  all  allopathically  treated 
inflammations;  the  doctors  certainly  persuade  themselves  as  well  as  their 
credulous  patients  that  these  after-pains  must  be  attributed  to  the  original 
disease. 

But  every  one  employing  the  natural  methods  of  healing  can  observe- 
how  easily  and  perfectly  inflammations  are  cured;  after  a  few  days  the 
ailment  will  have  completely  disappeared  without  leaving  the  least  trace. 

2.  Pains  in  the  back  and  gout  in  consequence  of  a  mercury  cure. — An 
army  officer,  fifty  years  of  age,  but  with  a  good  constitution  and  an  active 
skin,  was  compelled  by  his  gout  and  pains  in  the  back  to  seek  the  advice 
of  an  hydropathist,  after  a  dozen  allopathic  physicians  had  tried  in  vain 
to  cure  him. 

"Did  yon  ever  take  mercury?"  asked  the  hydropathic  physician. 
"  Yes,"  the  officer  replied,  "  but  that  was  thirty  years  ago,  and  only  long 
after  that  cure  my  present  evils  appeared,  which  increase  from  year  to 
year.     The  mercury  can  therefore  have  nothing  to  do  with  my  case." 

"  You  will  be  much  surprised,"  laughingly  replied  the  former,  "  and 
if  3'ou  take  the  cure  for  a  sufficient  length  of  time,  you  will  see  the 
syphilitic  ulcer  reappear  on  the  very  same  spot  from  which  your  doctor 
has  driven  it  into  your  body." 

Five  mouths  passed  before  the  crisis  set  in,  but  mitigation  of  his 
pain  and  invigoratiou  of  the  organism  had  already  begun.  In  the  sixth 
month  German  measles  appeared,  and  after  those  had  healed  off  in  the 
seventh  month,  furuncles  and  smaller  ulcers — 160  in  all — came  out.  This 
was  a  terrible  and  dangerous  crisis,  such  as  they  seldom  happen.  After 
the  officer  had  recovered,  he  felt  quite  well  and  had  a  very  good  appetite, 
and  as  he  steadily  gained  in  strength  and  vigor,  he  thought  the  cure  was 
finished. 

"Wait,"  said  the  physician,  "we  want  to  see  what  comes  next," 
and  the  patient  had  now  to  undergo  somewhat  changed  treatments.  After 
three  weeks  his  vital  forces  had  sufficiently  rallied  to  effect  another  crisis 
in  the  form  of  60  to  70  new  ulcers.  Then  after  a  few  weeks'  rest  20 
more  ulcers  and  finally,  for  the  last  time,  only  a  few  furuncles  came  out. 
After  the  mercury  had  thus  been  expelled,  the  original  syphilitic  ulcer 
reappeared;  but  after  two  weeks  already  the  remainder  of  this  poison  was 
also  bathed  away,  without  the  application  of  medicines  or  operations. 

"  Now  you  may  consider  yourself  cured,"    the  hydropathist  assured 
the  patient.      It  is  hardly  necessary  to  add  that  the  pains  in  his  back  had 
disappeared  forever,  and  that  the  officer  went  home  healthy  and  happy, 
like  a  new  man.     This  is  but  one  case  of  mercury  cure  and  suppn 
syphilis, — one  out  of  thousands. 

In  the  natural  method  of  healing  experience  has  undoubtedly  estab- 
lished   tlie  fact  that   mercury  poisoning  can  only  be  relieved   by  the  water 

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cure.  It  is  also  a  fact  that  syphilis  can  never  be  cured  by  mercurial 
treatment,  although  physician  and  patient  may  believe  that  it  can  be 
done,  and  although  all  syphilitic  symptoms  disappear  for  the  time  being. 
But  the  poison  is  only  enveloped  together  with  the  mercury  and  remains 
in  the  system, — in  other  words,  the  mercury  has  completely  suppressed 
and  paralyzed  the  vital  actions  of  the  organism  in  its  efforts  to  expel  the 
syphilitic  poison.  It  is  just  like  trying  to  drive  out  the  devil  by  beelze- 
bub.  Nearly  all  formerly  syphilitic  persons  who  went  through  a  good 
nature  cure  on  account  of  supposedly  new  and  entirely  different  ailments 
were  affected  at  the  end  with  the  long-forgotten  syphilitic  symptoms. 

Whoever  took  mercury  may  surely  expect  that  in  case  of  a  later  dis- 
ease that  poison  will  take  a  prominent  part  in  it,  although  it  may  not 
always  be  clearly  visible.  Numerous  proofs  for  this  assertion  could  be 
given,  but  one  may  suffice. 

3.  A  man,  about  40  years  old  and  with  a  strong  constitution,  suffered 
from  a  stiff  knee  and  emaciated  leg.  He  ascribed  his  ailment  wholly  to 
a  fall  from  his  horse,  an  accident  which  had  happened  nine  years  ago; 
but  he  had  entirely  forgotten  that  eighteen  years  ago — nine  years  before 
the  fall — he  went  through  a  very  easy  and  "  successful  "  mercury  cure. 
In  the  seventh  week  of  the  water  cure  he  got  a  small  eruption  on  the  stiff 
knee,  then  large  ulcers — the  mercury  had  reappeared — and  in  the  third 
month  he  could  already  bend  the  knee-joint;  after  another  month  he  was 
able  to  depart  for  home, — although  somewhat  too  early,  but  important 
business  called  him  away.  However,  he  continued  the  cure  at  home  till 
he  had  completely  recovered. 

Hydropathists  have  had  the  experience  many  times  that  mercury 
can  rest  wholly  inactive  or  dormantly  in  the  human  system  for  a  long 
time.  But  the  poison  is  only  lurking  like  a  snake,  and  as  soon  as  another 
disease  befalls  the  person  it  surely  comes  out  of  its  hiding-place  to  begin 
with  its  "venom  tooth  "  the  work  of  destruction. 

No  one  is  more  in  need  of  a  thorough  water  cure  than  a  mercury- 
poisoned  individual,  and  in  no  other  sickness  is  the  crisis  more  violent, 
more  painful  by  ulcers,  than  in  the  mercurial  disease.  We  recommend 
therefore  especially  to  take  the  cure  under  the  supervision  of  an  experi- 
enced hydropathic  physician. 

For  all  those  who  are  unable  to  do  so  we  wish  to  state  that  they  must 
first  of  all  begin  to  live  strictly  on  a  fruit  diet,  carefully  avoiding  all  stim- 
ulants and  narcotics,  while  the  water  treatments  consist  of  wet  packs, 
sitting  on  water,  and  shower  baths;  the  patient  should  not  get  scared  if, 
after  being  freed  from  the  mercury,  the  syphilitic  poison  which  he  be- 
lieved to  be  removed  long  ago  is  reviving  in  external  symptoms.  He 
should  continue  with  local  cold-water  treatments  and  bathing  until  the 
old  enemy  has  departed  forever. 

4.  Rheumatic  headache . — A  middle-aged  businessman  wanted  to  be 
freed  from  an  old  painful  rheumatism  of  the  head.     In  the  course  of  the 

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cure  soon  alleviation  set  in,  but  suddenly  the  evil  returned  with  doubled 
vehemence;  fever  appeared  also,  and  one  evening  the  physician  was  noti- 
fied that  the  patient  was  in  a  furious  rage,  breaking  the  windows  and 
trying  to  kill  his  wife. 

"  Very  well,"  said  the  hydropathist,  "  now  he  will  be  cured." 

An  allopathic  physician  who  was  present  and  who  was  trying  the 
water  cure  on  himself,  asked  astonished  how  that  could  be  a  sign  of 
improvement. 

"  Because,"  replied  the  hydropathic  physician,  "  an  ulcer  has  formed 
in  his  head,  which  will  empty  itself  and  all  morbid  matter  into  the 
eustachian  tubes." 

The  allopathist  was  still  more  surprised  and  did  not  know  what  to 
saw  But  everything  came  to  pass  as  the  hydropathist  had  predicted. 
He  had  repeatedly  had  the  experience  that  in  all  rheumatic  diseases  of 
the  head  and  the  eyes  ulcers  form  in  the  interior  of  the  head  which  dis- 
charge the  morbid  matter  through  the  ears. 

The  patient  had  formerly  an  acute  disease  of  the  head — inflammation 
of  the  brain,  I  believe — which  was  treated  allopathically,  or  rather  turned 
into  chronic  misery  and  disease. 

Epidemics. 

"Truth  is  the  daughter  of  time, 

i.  e.  of  historical  study,  and  not  of  authority. V 

Our  dissertation  on  epidemics  will  also  bring  new  views  for  many 
people.  Concerning  the  real  origin  of  epidemics,  allopathy  is  wholly  at 
loss  for  a  valid  explanation,  for  the  old  theory  of  making  microbes 
responsible  for  contagious  diseases  is  nothing  but  an  illusion.  Even  the 
investigations  of  the  ingenious  Pettenkofer  concerning  the  heighth  of  the 
subsoil  water  give  no  satisfactory  explanation.  The  studies  of  homeo- 
pathy which  are  based  upon  the  experience  of  centuries  give  us  better  in- 
formation. 

The  heighth  of  the  subsoil  water  and  the  bacteria,  if  we  want  the 
latter  to  be  mentioned  at  all,  are  only  the  perceptible  part  of  all  that  is 
influenced  by  the  atmosphere.  The  latter,  i.  e.  the  extension  of  the 
earth  in  a  gaseous  form  as  well  as  our  planet  at  large,  is  being  continually 
influenced  by  the  other  stars;  a  few  of  these  influences  have  been  ex- 
plained, and  Prof.  Rudolf  Falb's  theory  of  "critical  days"  seems  to  be 
confirmed  also  by  many  incidents  and  catastrophes  which  he  had  pre- 
dicted. We  know  that  ebb  and  tide  are  governed  by  the  moon,  that  a 
tidal  wave  is  likely  to  come  if  at  new  moon  the  latter  and  the  sun  are  in  a 
vertical  constellation  above  the  earth;  we  observe  at  the  time  of  the  equi- 
noctials (  March  J  1  st  and  September  22d)  the  quickest  changes  in  atmo- 
spheric pressure  and  temperature  and  the  greatest  number  of  the  most 
ridlent   Storms,  while  at   the  same   time   the  most  epidemics  either  origi- 

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nate  or  rage  most  fiercely.  Sua  and  moon  are  in  direct  vertical  constel- 
lation above  the  equator  and  thus  exert  their  combined  attraction  upon 
our  planet.  We  know  also  that  the  plague  of  former  centuries  raged  at 
no  time  more  frequently,  perniciously,  and  fatally  than  after  the  appear- 
ance of  comets,  or  shortly  after  the  eruption  of  volcanoes,  earthquakes, 
uncommonly  large  tidal  waves,  etc.,  If  we  bear  in  mind  to  what  extent 
the  plague  sometimes  depopulated  whole  cities,  how  people  perished  like 
flies,  how  their  corpses  putrefied  at  once,  how  also  the  other  beings,  the 
birds  in  the  air,  the  fish  in  the  water,  and  even  the  plants  suddenly  per- 
ished, we  have  no  other  explanation  for  these  singular  calamities  than  an 
abnormal  state  of  the  atmosphere  by  which  everything  living  was  like- 
wise attacked;  scrofulous  disposition  of  the  people  alone  cannot  account 
for  such  enormous  and  appalling  death  rates,  for  the  corruption  of  blood 
and  lymph  has  hardly  ever  been  so  deep-going  and  widespread. 

It  is  deplorable  that  our  modern  naturalists  deny  many  facts  which 
simply  rest  with  experience  and  observation,  merely  because  they  do  not . 
fit  into  the  dead  doctrines  of  an  antiquated  system.  One  of  those  facts, 
for  instance,  is  that  the  mental  and  bodily  welfare  of  man  depends  to 
some  extent  on  the  imponderable  influences  of  the  atmosphere.  Neither 
heat  nor  cold,  neither  humidity,  nor  dryness,  nor  their  sudden  changes, 
but  an  unexplainable  peculiarity  of  the  electric  condition  of  the  air  is  the 
principal  cause  of  sudden  epidemics  among  men,  animals,  and  plants. 
The  circumstance  that  we  do  not  yet  know  the  real  nature  of  the  relation 
of  the  different  electrical  atmospheric  conditions  to  the  living  beings  can- 
not speak  against  this  theory.  That  the  influences  exist  is  proven  by 
many  facts:  the  pains  which  many  feel  from  time  to  time  in  formerly 
broken  limbs;  the  well-known  critical  days  (the  seventh,  fourteenth,  and 
twenty-first  day)  in  fevers  correspond  with  the  days  of  the  changing 
moon;  many  so-called  nervous  diseases  and  other  more  or  less  pathologi- 
cal conditions  show  a  periodical  return,  etc.;  dogs  become  morose  and 
lazy  if  it  is  going  to  snow;  the  cattle  becomes  restless,  the  fish  do  not 
bite,  etc. 

These  examples,  taken  from  a  large  number  of  facts,  prove  this  atmo- 
spheric influence  which  may  often  be  overlooked  on  account  of  its  still 
obscure  sphere  of  activity;  they  could  also  show  some  would-be  investi- 
gators the  direction  in  which  they  ought  to  work  to  attain  real  results 
and  a  far-reaching  view;  then  these  gentlemen  would  recognize  that  the 
chase  after  microbes  is  a  mere  bauble,  riding  a  hobby-horse,  and  a  loss  of 
time;  for  in  the  air  we  breathe,  in  the  water  we  drink,  in  the  food  we  eat 
— be  it  prepared  ever  so  carefully — we  swallow  millions  of  bacilli  every 
day,  and  we  cannot  exclude  them  from  our  system  by  any  conceivable 
means.  The  attitude  of  the  allopathic  school  in  regard  to  the  germ- 
question  is  most  cleverly  ridiculed  by  the  following  humorous  verses 
which  will  not  fail  to  cheer  up  some  frightened  readers  who  are  still 
haunted  by  the  fear  of  bacilli: 

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"  He  always  boiled  the  water, 

As  the  health  department  begs; 
He  pasteurized  his  coffee 

And  his  matutinal  eggs. 
He  filtered  this  and  filtered  that 

And  sterilized  the  rest, — 
Did  everything  the  Board  of  Health 

Thinks  in  its  wisdom  best:  — 
But  he  couldn't  boil  the  atmosphere 

Four-fifths  of  which  is  germs, 
So  death  negotiated  him 

Upon  some  easy  terms." 

There  is  still  a  short  explanation  necessary  to  clear  up  a  seeming 
contradiction  in  the  above  dissertation.  Only  when  the  conditions  of  the 
atmosphere  are  abnormal  in  the  highest  degree  such  a  general  destruction 
of  life  as  epidemics  produce  can  be  possible,  reminding  us  of  the  mytho- 
logical Chronos  who  devoured  his  own  children.  But  we  have  to  take  also 
into  consideration  in  some  measure  man's  predisposition  to  disease,  as  sev- 
eral adverse  circumstances  must  necessarily  come  together  to  produce  the 
devastating  effects  of  the  epidemic  diseases. 


THE  NATURAL  HEALING  FACTORS. 

The  objection  most  frequently  heard  against  the  natural  method  of 
healing  is  its  inconvenience.  This,  however,  is  a  mistaken  view.  One 
will  soon  learn  to  use  homeopathic  remedies  and  appreciate  them;  the 
other  healing-factors  of  the  nature  cure,  which  we  mention  in  the  follow- 
ing discourse,  necessitate  no  outlay  and  every  one  will  soon  be  on  the 
royal  road  to  health. 

The  true  nature  cure  does  not  employ  any  paraphernalia  whatever.  We 
despise  not  only  medicine  poisons  and  operations,  but  also  treatments  by 
steam,  hot  air,  electricity,  hot  water,  massage,  apparatuses,  syringes,  or 
prcdigested  foods  and  all  the  rest  of  the  constantly  increasing  fads  which 
are  but  an  imitation  of  the  old  allopathic  practices.  All  healing  must 
come  from  within,  and  every  sick  organism  can  only  recover  if  it  is  put 
under  the  same  conditions  which  are  necessary  for  the  perpetuation  and 
propagation  of  organic  life  in  general;  these  are  in  their  natural  order  as 
follows:  sunshine^  fresh  air,  water  as  drink,  proper  exercise  and  rest,  fruits 
as  food.  Only  if  these  are  properly  used,  water  may  be  employed  as  heal- 
ing-factor in  the  form  of  baths  or  ablutions,  but  always  in  its  natural 
temperature,  neither  artificially  warmed  nor  cooled. 

Let  us  suppose  a  sick  person  in  a  solitary  region,  perhaps  on  an 
island,  where  he  has  all  that  is  necessary  for  life:  fruits  as  food  and  water 
as  drink;  in  such  a  case  ideal  conditions  are  given  for  recovery.  The 
sick  person  must  follow  his  own  intuitions,  as  there  are  no  "  doctors  of 
medicine"    to  be  consulted,  and   for  this  very  reason   he   will   be   healed 

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sooner  and  better.  He  will  constantly  breathe  pure  air,  nobody  will  in- 
terfere when  he  takes  his  air  baths  or  cools  the  aching  parts  of  his  body 
with  natural  cold  water.  Sun,  wind,  rain,  and  the  power  of  the  earth 
exercise  their  full  and  uninterrupted  influence  upon  him.  He  can 
receive  neither  allopathic  maltreatments,  nor  hot-water  applications,  mas- 
sage, herb  teas,  etc. ,  and  on  account  of  these  cirenmstances  he  will  re- 
gain health  and  strength  in  the  possible  shortest  time,  in  the  full  meaning 
of  these  words,  if  the  shadow  of  death  had  not  yet  embraced  him  and  if 
he  had  but  a  little  of  his  natural  vigor  retained.  By  this  example  the 
principles  of  the  pure,  unadulterated,  natural  method  of  healing  are  given 
clearly  and  intelligibly  to  all.  The  true  nature  cure  does  not  intend  to 
bring  but  temporary  relief  to  the  patient  so  that  he  may  resume  his  old 
perverted  methods  of  living,  but  aims  always  at  the  lasting  mental  and 
physical  regeneration  of  the  individual. 

The  Fruitarian  Diet. 

In  the  following  we  give  a  short  dissertation  on  diet,  the  importance 
of  which  we  pointed  out  repeatedly.  We  take  the  standpoint  of  the 
fruitarian  or  vegetarian,  non-irritating,  flesh  and  bloodless  diet.  All 
those  who  ever  considered  this  problem  not  only  from  the  hygienic  and 
economic  but  also  from  the  moral  and  ethical  standpoint  will  excuse  us 
that  on  account  of  the  limited  space  we  can  deal  here  only  with  a  sub- 
ordinate part,  i.  e.  the  stomach  question,  of  this  important  subject.  We 
know  very  well  that  ' '  bloodless  diet ' '  means  the  general  conduct  of  man 
towards  his  fellowmen  and  all  animated  beings,  that  it  means  everything 
conducive  to  his  physical  well-being  and  his  mental  and  spiritual  growth. 
It  should  be  the  highest  ambition  of  every  thinking  man  to  enlarge  his 
knowledge  and  views  of  this  world  by  reading  books  on  diet  reform, 
which  must  naturally  be  the  basis  of  all  reforms. 

Since  we  know  that  rational  and  correct  nutrition  is  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal parts  of  every  method  of  cure  and  that  the  best  diagnosis  and  pre- 
cepts can  only  be  of  value  if  first  of  all  the  dietetic  errors  are  corrected, 
we  act  only  in  the  well  considered  interest  of  patient  and  physician  if  we 
emphasize  the  importance  of  a  fleshless  diet  in  all  cases  of  sickness. 

We  said  that  we  take  the  standpoint  of  the  fruitarian,  i.  e.  rawfood 
diet,  and  since  we  have  lived  ourselves  on  this  plan  for  a  number  of  years 
we  will  explain  the  most  important  advantages  of  this  method  of  living. 

The  Value  of  Raw  Food. 

What  do  we  mean  by  natural  or  raw  food  ?  Everything  that  we 
can  enjoy  in  the  same  state  as  it  is  produced  by  nature,  i.  e.  raw  or  un- 
cooked. The  perverted  taste  and  dilated  stomach  of  the  average  "  civil- 
ized "  man  may  at  first  resist  such  a  "  barbarous  "  diet,  because  cooked 
foods,  stimulants,  and  narcotics  have  so  weakened  his  digestive  organs 

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that  they  depend  for  the  performance  of  their  functions  on  the  stimu- 
lating ingredients  contained  in  cooked  food  and  prepared  drinks,  just  as 
we  often  see  how  a  tired  and  overworked  horse  is  constantly  treated  with 
a  whip  till  the  poor  animal  breaks  down  altogether. 

It  is  often  asserted  that  man,  being  a  higher  organized  being,  must 
cook  his  food  in  order  to  assimilate  it.  Modern  chemistry  and  physiol- 
ogy, however,  have  uumistakingly  proven  that  the  chemical  composition 
of  the  foodstuffs  is  completely  altered  during  the  process  of  cooking,  that 
eooked  food  contains  far  less  assimilable  substances  than  raw  food  whose 
imponderable  electrical  vitality  disappears  also  if  exposed  to  excessive 
heat.  In  fact,  nearly  all  the  patients  we  have  examined  showed  the  signs 
of  catarrh  of  the  stomach  and  intestines  in  the  iris,  an  unmistakable  proof 
that  we  cannot  improve  on  nature  by  preparing  our  food  artificially. 

The  best  remedy  for  body  and  mind,  as  we  have  pointed  out,  is  sun- 
shine and  warmth.  The  sun  is  the  ultimate  source  of  all  life,  from  which 
plants  directly  and  animals  indirectly  derive  their  growth  and  vigor.  As 
the  plant  is  nothing  but  accumulated  sunshine  in  its  first  and  purest 
stage,  we  should  take  our  nourishment  from  the  vegetable  kingdom, 
principally  in  the  form  of  fruits,  nuts  and  grains  which  we  can  enjoy 
pure  and  unadulterated,  i.  e.  uncooked,  as  they  are  perfectly  prepared  by 
tlie  enlivening  rays  of  the  heavenly  light,  filled  with  life  and  vigor,  un- 
blemished by  the  hand  of  man.  In  raw  foods  the  organic  salts,  so  essen- 
tial in  the  metabolic  processes  of  the  tissue  cells,  are  found  in  an  assimi- 
lable form;  but  cooking  reduces  most  of  these  mineral  ingredients  into 
their  inorganic  state  in  which  they  are  useless  for  nutrition;  they  fre- 
quently remain  in  the  system  until  excreted  as  foreign  matter,  either  by 
the  natural  processes  of  depuration  or  by  disease. 

The  disregard  of  this  important  fact  is  especially  fatal  for  children, 
as  they  need  the  organic  salts  for  building  up  the  teeth,  tendons,  and 
bones.  For  instance,  to  kill  the  hypothetical  germs  it  is  often  thought 
advisable  to  boil  the  milk  before  it  is  given  to  the  infant.  In  doing  so 
the  above-mentioned  disassoeiation  of  the  organic  salts  into  inorganic  ele- 
ments takes  place,  making  the  milk  quite  insufficient  as  food.  Babies 
fed  on  boiled  or  diluted  milk  are  subject  to  rickets,  scrofula,  summer  com- 
plaints and  show  the  greatest  mortality.  They  die  because  they  are- 
starved  to  death, — starved  because  their  food  has  been  robbed  of  its  most 
essential  ingredients,  the  organic  salts. 

The  radical  changes  going  on  by  the  cooking  of  food  are  further 
illustrated  by  the  fact  that  all  seeds  do  not  sprout  any  more  after  they 
have  been  boiled;  they  are  no  more  capable  of  reproducing  their  own 
kind  and  therefore  cannot  furnish  vitality  to  other  living  beings. 

The  cooking  of  food  has  another  detrimental  effect.  The  earthy  in- 
gredients of  the  water  remain,  while  the  latter  is  evaporating;  and  by 
constantly  adding  more  water  to  prevent  burning  of  the  food,  our  body 
has  to  consume  a  large  amount  of  inorganic  matter  which  seriously  en- 


cumbers  the  organs.  Cooked  food  weakens  the  stomach,  while  raw  food 
is  strengthening  and  invigorating,  and  by  the  wise  use  of  the  latter  the 
digestive  organs  will  soon  adapt  themselves  to  the  new  regime  and  regain 
their  natural  vigor  and  activity. 

On  pages  67,  68  and  71,  ~2  we  have  given  a  full  description  of  the 
physiological  functions  and  anatomical  structure  of  the  digestive  organs 
and  recommend  a  repeated  and  careful  study  of  those  pages.  On  page 
67  we  have  pointed  out  the  great  importance  of  proper  mastication  and 
wish  to  refer  the  reader  particularly  to  this  subject  which  can  never  be 
taught  too  impressively. 

Another  experience  may  be  mentioned  here;  the  eatable  products  of 
each  latitude  of  the  globe  are  the  most  healthful  if  consumed  in  the  zones 
where  they  grow:  tropical  fruits  are  best  enjoyed  in  the  equatorial  coun- 
tries, while  the  apple,  the  grape,  the  prune,  and  numerous  other  varieties 
are  the  ideal  fruits  for  the  inhabitants  of  the  temperate  zone. 

We  have  clearly  shown  that  the  fruitarian  diet  is  the  best  for  the 
sick  and  well  alike.  We  must  beg  the  reader  therefore  not  to  misunder- 
stand the  following  remarks.  If  a  person  afflicted  with  an  acute  disease 
or  a  woman  in  pregnancy  has  an  ardent  desire  for  an  article,  for  instance 
meat  or  chalk,  which  is  not  in  accordance  with  the  principles  of  nature 
cure,  that  desire  should  be  satisfied,  notwithstanding  that  such  an  appetite 
seems  unnatural  to  us.  In  such  cases  the  instinct  speaks  a  clear  language 
which  should  be  rightly  interpreted,  probably  in  this  way  that  through 
this  recent  flesh  poisoning  a  feverish  condition  appears  by  which  old  poi- 
sons will  be  expelled  simultaneously  with  the  new  ones,  or  the  body  really 
needs  the  desired  and  seemingly  indigestible  article,  for  instance  chalk, 
for  some  useful  purpose. 

Air  and  Sun  Baths. 

The  air  bath  is  best  taken  in  the  morning  after  rising  at  open  win- 
dows; a  few  simple  gymnastic  exercises  will  greatly  heighten  the  effect; 
duration  five  to  ten  minutes  or  longer  if  one  enjoys  it.  The  sun  bath  can 
be  taken  at  home  or  in  a  convenient  place  in  the  open  air  by  exposing 
the  naked  body  freely  to  the  enlivening  rays  of  the  sun,  while  the  head 
may  frequently  be  wetted  with  cold  water;  the  latter  precaution,  how- 
ever, is  unnecessary  as  sunstrokes  occur  only  if  the  body  is  enwrapped  in 
too  heavy  clothing.  If  blisters  appear  they  are  best  treated  by  pouring 
water  on  them.  During  the  bathing-season  sun  baths  are  best  taken  with 
intermediate  plunges  into  the  water. 

Cold  Water  Treatments. 

Of  the  cold-water  treatments  the  simplest  are  at  the  same  time  the 
most  agreeable  and  effective  and  they  require  neither  subtility  nor  painful 
study.  With  the  use  of  common  sense,  sound  and  calm  judgment,  and 
the  knowledge  of  nature's  laws,  one  will  soon  acquire  the  ability  to  do 

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always  the  right  thing.     The  consciousness  to  benefit  and  not  to  injure 

the  patient,  and  the  immediate,  although  small  success  facilitate  the  un- 
accustomed work  for  the  attendant  and  remove  all  uncertainty  for  him 
and  the  patient.  The  diagnosis  from  the  eye  will  greatly  help  both  par- 
ties by  deepening  their  insight  into  the  workings  and  wisdom  of  nature. 

In  the  following  we  give  a  short  description  of  some  effective,  yet 
still  little  known  cold-water  treatments;  in  connection  with  the  other 
healing-factors  they  are  sufficient  in  all  cases  of  sickness. 

As  the  principal  treatment,  next  to  the  washing  of  the  head  and 
going  barefoot,  I  regard  the  " sitting  on  cold  water."  Fill  a  pail  full  of 
cold  water  and  sit  on  it  in  such  a  manner  that  only  the  breech  and  the 
sexual  organs  are  in  contact  with  the  water,  and  remain  in  this  situation 
from  three  to  ten  minutes,  or  if  a  bath  tub  is  at  hand  fill  it  with  about 
six  inches  of  water  and  sit  in  it,  but  in  this  case  the  feet  must  also  be 
kept  in  the  water,  a  circumstance  which  makes  the  latter  treatment  not 
so  agreeable  as  sitting  on  the  pail.  With  this  simple,  yet  very  effective 
treatment  we  can  favorably  influence  acute  and  chronic  diseases  alike  in 
cooling  the  excessive  heat  in  the  abdomen,  without  forcibly  lowering  the 
general  temperature  of  the  body,  and  thus  effecting  plentiful  evacuations 
of  the  intestines  and  the  bladder. 

Even  grave  retentions  of  the  urine  and  cramps  are  at  once  removed; 
those  also  suffering  from  hemorrhoids — they  should  never  use  paper  after 
stools,  especially  no  printed  paper — will  be  greatly  benefited  by  this  water 
treatment  which  is  always  and  in  all  cases  to  be  highly  recommended  to 
both  sexes,  young  and  old.  Even  those  who  otherwise  have  a  strong 
aversion  to  cold  water  will  soon  appreciate  this  form  of  water  application 
which  necessitates  no  outlay  whatever. 

The  wet  packs,  or  turapping  of  the  body  in  wet  sheets  or  linen,  is  also 
an  agreeable  treatment  which  requires  no  special  knowledge.  As  in  the 
application  of  all  cold-water  treatments,  good  care  must  be  taken  that 
the  body  is  warm,  or  at  least  not  shivering,  before  the  wet  bandage 
is  applied.  Old  linen  which  has  been  made  more  pliable  by  frequent 
washing  is  best  adapted;  it  is  dipped  into  naturally  cold  water  and  well 
wrung  out.  The  sheet  should  be  put  as  close  to  the  body  as  possibk-, 
without  folds,  yet  not  so  tight  as  to  interfere  with  the  circulation  of  the 
blood.  The  wet  linen  is  to  be  covered  with  a  woolen  blanket,  overlapping 
the  former  a  few  inches  above  and  below.  The  use  of  an  air-tight  cover, 
for  instance  oilcloth  or  rubber,  .should  always  be  avoided.  The  patient 
should  remain  in  the  bandage  as  long  as  he  feels  comfortable, — the  feeling 
is  here  an  unmistakable  guide.  In  fevers  a  change  or  removal  of  the 
bandage  will  be  necessary  after  three-quarters  of  an  hour,  in  feverless 
conditions  after  two  or  three  hours,  often  only  in  the  morning  if  the  ban- 
dage was  applied  the  evening  before.  But  the  patient  should  not  be  dis- 
turbed in  his  sleep  on  account  of  the  change  or  some  other  cause.  After 
the  removal  of  the  bandage  a  cold  ablution  of  the  whole  body  is  advisable, 

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Figure  70.     Chest-Shoulder  Bandage. 


especially  in  feverous  conditions.     The  wet  bandages  are  best  applied  in 
the  afternoon  or  in  the  evening  before  retiring. 

In  these  applications  we  have  an  excellent  medium  to  reduce  the 
fever-heat,  in  which  case  we  wring  them  out  less  and  renew  them  oftener, 
thus  reducing  the  abnormal  temperature  of  the  body;  if  the  linen  is  wrung 
out  dry  or  the  bandage  left  on  for  a  longer  time,  it  raises  the  temperature, 
opens  the  pores  of  the  skin  and  has  the  effect  of  a  light  vesicatory.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  the  wet  bandage  stimulates  the  excretion  of  morbid  mat- 
ter, without  weakening  the  body  or  depriving  it  of  too  much  fluid,  which 
is  the  case  in  the  hot-air  and  steam  baths. 

Very  effective  and  agree- 
able is  also  the  chcst-sJwuldcr 
bandage.  To  cover  chest 
and  shoulder  equally  with 
one  long  piece  of  linen,  two 
towels  are  sewed  together 
at  their  small  sides,  dipped 
into  cold  water  and  wrung 
out.  Then  this  bandage  is 
put  on  in  the  following 
manner.  The  connecting 
seam  is  placed  on  the  ster- 
num, while  the  outer  ends 
of  the  towels  are  drawn  backwards  below  the  armpits,  then  crossed  on 
the  back,  drawn  forward  again  over  the  shoulders  and  finally  connected 
with  the  front  part.  It  is  self-evident  that  the  wet  linen  has  to  be  cov- 
ered in  its  entire  length  by  a  somewhat  wider  strip  of  dry  woolen  cloth. 
This  bandage  is  of  splendid  effect  in  all  affections  of  the  lungs,  in  all 
stages  of  consumption,  as  well  as  in  all  cases  of  inflammations  of  the 
lungs,  heart,  pleura,  etc.  Duration  of  the  application  from  thirty  min- 
utes to  two  hours. 

The  short  bandage  is  the  best  liked  and  most  used 
of  all  water  applications;  its  effect  on  the  whole  sys- 
tem is  wonderful,  and  its  application  is  even  successful 
where  no  further  water  treatments  are  being  used;  it 
regulates  the  temperature  of  the  body  and  mitigates 
the  heat  in  fevers;  in  such  cases  the  wet  linen  has  to 
be  renewed  at  shorter  intervals,  say  about  every  hour. 
The  circumstance  that  every  one  can  easily  put 
on  the  short  bandage  himself  has  made  it  very  popu- 
lar. A  coarse  piece  of  linen  wide  enough  to  reach 
from  the  armpits  to  the  knees  is  wetted  and  wrung 
out  and  wrapped  closely  around  the  body.  The  linen 
should  be  long  enough  to  go  around  from  four  to  six 
times.     A  woolen  blanket  closes  the  pack  almost  her- 

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Figure  71. 
Short  Bandage. 


metically,  overlapping  the  upper  and  lower  end  of  the  linen  about  two  or 
three  inches. 

If  healthy  people  would  apply  a  short  bandage  every  week,  or  at 
least  every  fortnight,  they  would  prevent  a  great  number  of  diseases.  It 
also  acts  favorably  on  the  liver,  kidneys,  and  bowels,  relieving  the  latter 
from  troublesome  winds  and  superfluous  water  and  facilitating  regular 
evacuations.  Dropsy,  complaints  of  the  heart  and  the  stomach,  which 
often  originate  from  the  pressure  of  foul  air  accumulating  in  the  intestines 
and  which  disappear  with  the  expulsion  of  the  troublesome  gases,  are 
unknown  to  those  who  frecpiently  apply  the  short  bandage.  People  who 
rest  enveloped  in  it  all  night  enjoy  an  excellent  sleep  until  morning. 

The  short  bandage  is  further  most  advantageously  used  against 
phlegm  of  the  stomach,  affections  of  the  heart  and  lungs  and  against  vari- 
ous complaints  of  the  head  and  throat;  it  is  also  a  successful  remedy  in 
sexual  diseases,  ailments  of  the  back  and  feet,  nervous  fevers,  diseases  of 
the  skin,  and  finally  for  all  those  indispositions  the  nature  of  which  can- 
not be  readily  ascertained.  During  the  excessive  heat  of  summer  the 
short  bandage  is  welcomed  by  many  as  a  splendid  dormitive. 

Miscellaneous  Applications. 

Sudorific  after  a  cold. — Heat  some  table  salt  in  a  pan  so  as  to  make  it 
perfectly  dry;  then  fill  two  small  bags  with  the  salt,  put  one  on  the  ab- 
domen and  the  other  one  lengthwise  under  the  back  of  the  patient  and 
cover  him  well  with  heavy  blankets  or  quilts;  he  will  soon  be  sweating 
and  feel  greatly  relieved.  Instead  of  salt  also  cherry  stones  can  be  used 
for  this  purpose;  or  perhaps  three  bags  can  be  applied,  one  between  the 
calves  and  one  on  each  hip.  After  the  sweating  the  patient  should  take 
a  cold  ablution  of  the  whole  body,  and  to  produce  another  sweating  he 
should  go  to  bed  naked,  or  if  possible  take  some  exercise  in  the  open  air. 

The  clay  plaster  is  prepared  by  drying  and  pulverizing  common  fresh 
clay,  carefully  casting  out  all  small  stones.  The  fine  powder  is  mixed 
in  a  dish  with  water  and  two  or  three  drops  of  good  vinegar  and  is  stirred 
with  a  small  piece  of  wood  until  a  fine  salve  is  formed.  The  latter  is 
smeared  in  thin  layers  upon  a  piece  of  linen  and  thus  put  on  the  wounded 
or  sore  place  and  must  be  renewed  as  soon  as  the  clay  has  become  dry. 
The  plaster  mitigates  the  heat  wonderfully  in  all  cases  of  inflammation, 
and  is  equally  effective  in  dissolving  cold  tumors  and  swellings,  for  in- 
stance varicose  veins,  etc.  The  size  of  the  plaster  should  overlap  the 
affected  spot  about  two  or  three  inches  all  around. 

In  case  of  inflammation  of  the  lungs,  abdomen,  tendons  or  joints  it 
softens  the  pain  immediately,  ami  it  does  likewise  in  all  ulcerations,  for 
instance  furuncles,  sore  fingers,  ami  skin  diseases,  like  pimples,  nettle- 
rash,  or  stings  of  insects;  in  case  of  blood  poisoning  the  clay  plaster 
reduces  the  swelling,  as  well  as  in  all  cases  of  dislocation. 

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Equally  beneficial  as  the  above  are  the  effects  of  a  layer  of  curd  or  pot 
cheese.  The  curd,  which  should  be  as  fresh  as  possible,  is  diluted  with 
whey  or  milk  to  a  salve  to  be  used  in  the  same  way  as  the  clay  plaster. 

Magnetic   Healing. 

We  cannot  conclude  our  dissertations  without  mentioning  another 
ideal  factor  which  may  be  applied  in  the  cure  of  disease  and  which  is 
always  ready  for  use,  without  danger  and  coast, — the  animal  magnetism 
or  magnetic  healing.  It  may  be  applied  alone  as  well  as  in  connection 
with  other  natural  therapeutics,  as  homeopathic  remedies,  water  and  diet 
cures,  and  there  are  a  great  many  instances  in  which  the  magnetic  treat- 
ment has  proved  its  beneficial  and  sometimes  instantaneous  effect. 

Although  our  space  is  limited,  we  shall  nevertheless  give  the  reader 
as  much  information  concerning  magnetism  as  is  possible  in  this  short 
paragraph,  because  we  know  that  many  w7ill  try  this  method,  and  almost 
every  one  will  find  to  his  surprise  and  delight  that  he  possesses  magnetic 
healing-power  in  some  degree. 

Magnetic  healing  is  practiced  since  times  immemorial,  although  at 
first  unconsciously,  a  fact  which  is  confirmed  by  the  traditions  of  the  old- 
est peoples,  the  Hindoos,  Assyrians,  Egyptians,  etc.  It  is  deplorable 
that  it  is  comparatively  so  little  known  in  our  times  and  that  many  speak 
of  this  method  in  a  contemptible  way,  but  "  men  deride  what  they  do  not 
understand,"  as  Goethe  says  in  his  immortal  "Faust."  The  old  Teu- 
tons who  dealt  the  first  mortal  blow  to  the  invincible  Roman  legions,  had 
in  many  things  a  far  better  knowledge  than  their  degenerated  descend- 
ants, and  their  seers  were  well  versed  in  the  art  of  magnetic  and  sympa- 
thetic healing;  but  we  find  that  little  of  this  knowledge  has  been  trans- 
mitted down  to  the  present  time. 

The  theory  of  magnetic  healing  cannot  be  discussed  here,  we  must 
confine  ourselves  to  the  explanation  of  its  practice.  It  is  very  probable 
that  every  human  being  can  exercise  or  feel  magnetic  influence,  although 
not  all  are  equally  capable  in  this  respect.  The  rules  of  the  treatment 
are  very  simple,  and  if  they  are  carefully  observed  they  can  never  have 
even  the  slightest  injurious  effect.  For  this  reason  alone  a  trial  should 
always  be  made,  as  there  can  be  no  harm  in  it  even  if  it  should  fail  to 
bring  the  desired  results. 

The  opposite  halves  of  the  body  have  the  most  magnetic  effect  upon 
each  other,  for  instance  the  right  hand  upon  the  left  one,  the  right  foot 
upon  the  left  one,  and  vice  versa;  strokes  are  always  to  be  made  in  a 
downward  direction. 

Magnetic  influence  is  best  exercised  by  strokes,  laying  on  of  the  hands, 
breathing  upon,  or  application  of  magnetized  matter.  After  the  treat- 
ment the  magnetizer  should  always  wash  his  hands  in  cold  water. 

Magnetic  sitting. — The  patient  should  sit  on  a  wooden  chair  in  front 
of  the  magnetizer,  both  barefooted,  the  patient's  feet  resting  upon  those 

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of  the  former.  The  hands  of  the  magnetizer  are  placed  on  the  head  or 
abdomen  of  the  patient  who  in  turn  puts  his  hands  on  the  knees  of  the 
former;  in  this  position  both  should  rest  quietly  for  about  five  minutes. 

Magnetic  strokes. — The  magnetizer  holds  his  hands  over  the  head, 
region  of  the  heart  or  abdomen  of  the  patient  for  about  three  minutes 
and  finally  makes  the  so-called  "long  magnetic  strokes,"  which  con>ist 
in  moving  the  hands  in  a  straight  downward  direction  from  the  head  to 
the  feet  on  both  sides  of  the  patient.  The  hands  must  be  kept  at  a  dis- 
tance of  about  four  inches  from  the  body,  with  opened  and  bent  fingers, 
the  palms  turned  to  the  body.  As  soon  as  the  hands  of  the  magnetizer 
reach  tlie  floor  he  should  shake  them,  just  as  if  he  attempted  to  throw 
the  attracted  disease  off.  Then  both  hands  return  to  the  head  in  a  large 
circle,  but  not  in  a  straight  line,  as  this  would  be  a  backward  stroke. 
The  whole  treatment  is  repeated  about  from  fifteen  to  twenty  times. 

The  local  treatment  consists  in  short  strokes,  laying  on  of  the  hands, 
or  breathing  upon  the  diseased  parts.  If  a  patient  has  very  severe  pains 
in  any  part  of  the  body,  the  magnetizer  can  greatly  alleviate  them  by 
breathing  upon  it,  by  gently  laying  on  of  the  hands,  or  by  putting  the 
finger  tips  together  and  holding  them  over  the  injured  spot,  or  by  circu- 
lar movements  with  both  hands  crossed  at  the  wrist.  In  case  of  pains  in 
the  abdomen  the  magnetizer  describes  a  circle  with  crossed  hands  over  that 
part  of  the  body,  repeating  the  movement  about  seven  times;  arriving  at 
last  over  the  sexual  organs,  the  hands  are  taken  apart  and  pass  slowly 
downward,  the  same  as  in  the  long  stroke.  At  the  end  of  all  applications 
the  magnetizer  should  gently  grasp  the  right  ankle  of  the  patient  with 
his  left  hand,  the  left  ankle  with  his  right  hand  till  he  feels  the  pulsation 
of  the  blood  vessels;  this  is  one  of  the  most  recommendable  methods  of 
magnetizing  generally,  especially  for  the  beginner,  and  brings  in  many 
cases  perfect  success. 

The  duration  of  the  magnetic  treatment  may  be  from  three  to  five 
minutes,  or  till  the  hands  of  the  magnetizer  begin  to  sweat,  which  is  the 
best  sign  of  a  good  effect.  The  patient  often  perceives  the  magnetizing  as 
a  gentle  breath  of  wind,  a  pulling  in  the  nerves,  or  increased  well  feeling. 

A  few  special  remarks  may  be  added  here.  As  magnetizing  accord- 
ing to  the  above  directions  can  do  no  harm,  one  should  always  be  self- 
composed  and  make  the  strokes  with  leisure  and  ease,  which  will  ensure 
the  best  results.  During  the  treatment  no  disturbance  should  be  made 
in  the  room,  and  only  such  persons  may  be  present  who  are  agreeable  to 
tlie  patient,  lie  should  not  be  molested  with  questions  as  to  his  sensa- 
tions, and  the  conversation  should  be  perfectly  unrestrained  ami  agree- 
able. A  person  who  fell  asleep  under  magnetic  treatment  should  only  be 
awakened  in  case  of  emergency;  it  can  be  done  by  breathing  upon  the 
eyes,  fanning  the  face  in  an  upward  direction,  or  calling  the  patient  by 
name.  At  first  the  treatment  should  be  given  daily,  later  on  it  m  ty  be 
administered  every  other  day. 

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General  Remarks. 

All  nature  and  all  life  preaches  the  natural  method  of  healing,  and 
each  da}%  we  might  say  every  newspaper,  brings  us  proofs  which  vindi- 
cate our  teachings  and  show  that  it  betrays  plain  ignorance  to  scoff  at  our 
methods.  Nobody  is  entitled  to  speak  contemptuously  of  homeopathy, 
because  chemistry  and  physiology  have  not  yet  been  able  to  fully  ex- 
pound the  innermost  workings  of  nature. 

The  wonderful  results  often  attained  by  homeopathic  remedies  may 
be  explained  by  the  incomprehensible  fineness  and  divisibility  of  matter. 
Even  the  smallest  particle  which  can  be  detected  by  the  most  powerful 
microscope  is  still  composed  of  millions  of  molecules  which  will  perhaps 
forever  be  hidden  from  our  direct  observation.  A  few  examples  of  the 
almost  infinite  minuteness  of  some  substances,  yet  still  to  be  traced,  may 
illustrate  our  views.  If  we  subject  a  cube  of  gold  to  a  strong  fire,  the 
flame  turns  greenish,  as  a  result  of  the  evaporation  of  the  infinitesimal 
gold  particles;  the  spectral  analysis  shows  us  the  presence  of  gold  in  the 
flame,  but  even  the  most  careful  examination  by  measure  and  weight 
cannot  detect  the  slightest  diminution  of  the  gold  cube.  The  inconceiv- 
able divisibility  of  perfumes  is  well  known,  but  perhaps  not  the  fact  that 
the  utmost  intensification  can  turn  the  most  agreeable  scent,  for  instance 
the  sweet  smell  of  hyacinths,  into  the  abominable  stench  of  bedbugs. 

We  refer  to  four  more  items  from  daily  papers  which,  being  neither 
written  against  allopathy  nor  for  homeopathy,  urge  all  the  more  to  medi- 
tation and  furnish  strong  proofs  for  our  theories. 

1.  The  effect  of  copper  upon  the  development  of  plants. — The  French 
naturalists  and  investigators  Dehergin  and  Demoussy  made  the  observa- 
tion that  wheat,  lupines,  and  the  seeds  of  other  plants  do  not  shoot  roots 
in  distilled  water  which  had  been  boiled  and  condensed  in  copper  vessels, 
while  all  seeds  in  water  distilled  in  glass  vessels  sprouted  soon  vigorously. 
Silver,  lead,  and  tin  also  did  not  show  any  detrimental  effect,  while  copper 
immediately  stopped  the  growth  of  the  seeds.  The  chemical  analysis 
proved  that  already  an  addition  of  a  ten-millionth  part  (0.000,000,1)  of 
copper  to  the  water  sufficed  to  impede  the  development  of  the  roots. 
Moreover  a  similar  discovery  has  been  made,  though  much  earlier,  by  the 
German  botanist  Naegeli  and  which  he  has  proven  in  a  treatise  published 
shortly  after  his  death.  When,  he  put  copper  coins  in  a  glass  cylinder 
filled  with  water  destined  for  the  examination  of  plants,  the  injurious  in- 
fluence was  even  noticed  after  the  coins  had  been  removed  and  fresh  dis- 
tilled water  was  used.  The  poisonous  effect  of  copper  can  still  be  per- 
ceived if  the  metal  is  only  a  thousand-millionth  part  (0.000,000,001)  of 
the  water. 

2.  A  nciv  test  to  be  employed  in  case  of  apparent  death  (ca/alepsj'). — 
The  distinction  between  real  death  and  apparent  death  is  still  difficult 
in  some  cases,  in  spite  of  the  numerous  applications  which  are  recom- 
mended for  this  purpose.     Everything  possible  has  been  tried  already,  at 

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last  also  the  Roentgen  rays  which  are  claimed  to  be  an  excellent  medium 
for  diagnosis.  However,  they  can  seldom  be  applied,  because  they  re- 
quire a  complicated,  expensive  apparatus.  Now  the  Academy  of  Sciences 
of  Paris  has  recently  awarded  a  prize  to  a  method  invented  by  Dr.  Icard 
of  Marseilles  who  employs  the  well-known  dye  stuff  fluorcscin.  He  uses 
a  solution  of  fluorescin,  the  color  of  which  is  so  intense  that  a  single  gram 
is  sufficient  to  dye  45,000  liters  of  water,  and  his  experiment  is  based  on 
the  physiological  fact  that  no  substance  can  be  absorbed  and  diffused  by"; 
the  tissues  of  the  body  unless  the  circulation  of  the  vital  fluids  is  active,  j 
A  subcutaneous  injection  of  Dr.  Icard' s  solution,  which  is  not  poisonous 
in  the  least,  produces  after  only  two  minutes  in  a  person  still  living  a 
yellowish  color  of  the  skin  and  the  mucous  membranes,  and  his  appear- 
ance is  like  that  of  a  person  suffering  from  acute  jaundice.  The  tissues 
of  the  eyes  receive  a  somewhat  light-green  color,  the  pupil  disappears, 
and  the  eye  looks  as  if  a  beautiful  smaragd  had  been  set  in.  The  tears, 
the  saliva,  the  urine,  all  are  colored,  and  one  drop  of  blood  put  into  a 
glass  of  water  produces  a  light  grass-green  color.  After  an  hour  or  two 
all  these  s)-mptoms  have  disappeared,  as  then  the  fluorescin  has  been  ex- 
creted by  the  kidneys. 

3.  The  emanations  of  certain  metals  are  very  small,  but  their  effects, 
upon  the  human  system  arc  soo?i  perceivable  and  very  injurious. — All  people 
working  in  copper  works  have  a  greenish  skin,  and  their  mucous  excre- 
tions are  of  a  similar  color.  Arsenic  has  an  almost  murderous  influence 
upon  all  who  come  into  contact  with  the  metal;  sooner  or  later  they  will 
become  the  victims  of  their  dangerous  occupation.  The  perniciousness  of 
mercury- vapors  is  illustrated  by  the  following  fact.  The  English  ship 
"Triumph"  on  one  of  her  voyages  was  laden  almost  exclusively  with 
mercury.  On  the  way  the  entire  crew  was  taken  ill;  ulcers,  paralysis, 
salivation  (pt3-alism),  and  other  diseases  appeared. 

On  this  occasion  we  wish  to  caution  also  against  the  use  of  poisonous 
insect  powders,  such  as  they  are  often  advertised  in  the  newspapers.  The 
use  of  corrosive  sublimate  against  bed  bugs,  for  instance,  has  often  caused 
the  symptoms  of  poisoning  in  many  persons  who  came  into  contact  with 
furniture  thus  treated.  It  is  also  a  well-known  fact  that  the  manufacture 
of  wall  paper  containing  arsenical  colors  had  to  be  given  up  on  account 
of  the  poisonous  effect  of  their  emanations  upon  the  human  system. 

4.  Arsenic  can  be  detected  in  minute  quantities  in  the  hair  of  man  and 
animals. — Messrs.  Edmund  Knecht  and  F.  Dearde,  two  prominent  scien- 
tists of  London,  England,  have  shown  in  an  article  published  recently  that 
arsenic  is  contained  in  a  perceptible  quantity  in  the  hair  of  persons  who 
have  taken  the  metal  either  by  medical  prescription,  or — as  it  lately  often 
happened  in  England — in  drinking  beer  containing  arsenic.  This  discov- 
ery is  of  the  greatest  importance  in  regard  to  a  quick  and  unfailing  proof 
of  arsenic  poisoning.  Years  ago  already  the  Preach  chemist  Gautier  of 
Paris  has  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  animals  excrete  arsenic  by  the 

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hair.  Any  chemist  can  thus  easily  prove  arsenic  poisoning;  if  the  person 
has  taken  only  minute  quantities  of  the  poison,  no  traces  can  be  perceived 
by  means  of  a  small  microscope,  but  a  larger  instrument  will  show  small 
particles  of  copper-arsenic  if  the  hair  was  treated  before  with  copper  am- 
moniac. The  hair  of  a  healthy  person  also  contains  arsenic  but  in  such 
a  small  quantity  that  it  cannot  be  ascertained.  But  if  somebody  has  been 
treated  medicinally  with  arsenic,  the  metal  can  be  found  in  his  hair  in  a 
ratio  of  0.3  to  10,000.  In  the  hair  of  a  patient  who  took  sick  on  account 
of  drinking  beer  containing  arsenic,  the  poison  was  detected  even  in  the 
ratio  of  1  to  10,000.  The  new  method  of  ascertaining  thus  exactly  the 
quantity  of  arsenic  in  the  hair  will  become  an  important  factor  in  forensic 
(legal)  medicine,  as  the  suspicion  of  an  arsenic  poisoning  can  now  be 
cleared  up  very  easily  and  definitely.  The  reason  why  the  poison  takes 
its  way  into  the  hair  could  not  be  explained  so  far  by  the  scientists. 

To  item  2  we  wish  to  add  for  a  better  understanding  that  one  gram 
is  the  one-thousandth  part  of  a  liter  of  water;  fluorescin  in  water  is  still 
noticed  therefore  if  present  in  a  ratio  of  1:  45,000,000! 

Item  3  proves  our  assertion  that  secondary  and  tertiary  syphilis  are 
nothing  but  the  murderous  consequences  of  mercury  poisoning. 

Item  4  suggests  the  question:  If  the  minute  quantities  of  arsenic  that 
a  beer  drinker  takes  into  his  system  are  sufficient  to  cause  arsenic  poison- 
ing, what  must  then  naturally  be  the  consequences  of  allopathic  doses  ? 

We  know  very  well  that  allopathists  do  not  like  to  hear  the  words 
"medicine  poisoning,"  "medicine  pining."  To  their  objection  that 
these  poisons  are  now  not  vised  so  often  any  more,  we  simply  reply  with 
the  assertion  that  either  the  same  poisons  are  used  but  under  different 
names,  or  other  poisons  just  as  pernicious.  Allopathy  is  and  remains  a 
pseudo-science  which  spreads  nothing  but  disease  and  disaster. 

CORROBORATION. 

We  wish  to  corroborate  our  disquisitions  with  a  few  objective  remarks. 
Some  of  our  readers  may  think  that  we  have  written  the  present  book 
with  a  prejudice  and  bias;  that  we  have  gone  too  far  in  drawing  our  con- 
clusions and  in  our  condemnation  of  medicine  poisons,  specialist  treat- 
ment, and  surgery.  By  means  of  a  significant  example,  however,  we  shall 
show  that  we  cautiously  examine  in  every  respect  and  direction,  before 
we  venture  to  pronounce  a  definite  judgment;  that  we  always  endeavor 
to  be  impartial  and  to  learn  by  unprejudiced  examination  before  we  reject 
something  and  try  to  replace  it  by  something  else. 

We  make  surgery  on  purpose  the  subject  of  our  concluding  discourse, 
because  this  branch  of  medical  science  is  regarded  not  only  by  the  public, 
but  also  by  the  nihilistic  physicians,  i.  e.  the  disbelievers  in  medicines,  as 
the  crown  of  medical  science.  Our  explanations  are  based  on  the  most 
careful  observations  in  this  respect. 

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Surgery — we  lay  special  stress  on  the  point  that  we  thereby  mean 
the  operative  treatment  of  diseases,  not  the  assistance  of  the  surgeon  after 
accidents — created  the  words  "  functional  defects  and  derangements"  as 
terms  to  denote  the  manifold  consequences  after  operations. 

There  is  not  one  person  on  whom  an  operation  was  performed,  for 
instance  the  removal  of  the  appendix  vermiformis,  who  has  not  to  com- 
plain of  lighter  or  graver  consequences,  such  as  depression  of  the  mind, 
anger,  vexation,  irritability,  nervousness,  digestive  troubles,  etc.,  although 
the  appendix  is  an  unnecessary  part  of  the  body  according  to  the  views 
of  allopathy. 

We  further  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  women  whose  uterus  has 
been  sowed  to  the  vagina,  or  to  the  abdominal  walls,  etc.,  on  account  of 
dislocation,  have  inevitably  miscarriages;  women  who  had  important 
parts  of  their  sexual  organs  removed  change  also  externally  for  the  worse. 
A  most  frequent  and  serious  consequence  of  operations  on  the  abdomen 
is  a  fracture  of  the  abdominal  muscles.  Persons  who  had  the  thyroid 
gland  removed  on  account  of  the  enlargement  of  that  organ  were  afflicted 
with  dementia.  Tumors  or  cancerous  formations  which  had  been  cauter- 
ized or  removed  operatively  reappear  in  an  always  more  serious  form,  etc. 

All  these  cases  and  many  more  are  certainly  appearances  which  were 
wholly  unknown  before  the  era  of  the  surgical  treatment  of  diseases;  they 
are  consequently  quite  an  undesired  enlargement  of  medical  science  by 
surgery.  We  shall  give  here  a  short  resume  of  the  respective  reports  of 
medical  and  surgical  authors: 

1.  Serious  mental  derangements  often  appear  in  consequence  of 
operations  in  persons  in  whose  family  no  hereditary  encumbrance  of  the 
brain  can  be  traced. 

2.  The  functional  derangements  are  noticed  more  frequently  after 
the  removal  of  parts  of  the  sexual  organs  than  of  other  parts  of  the  body. 

3.  Operations  are  the  causes  of  insanity  which  is  especially  apt  to 
develop  in  highly  irritable  individuals. 

4.  Irritability  is  a  condition  which  should  never  be  overlooked  by 
surgeons,  and  only  absolute  necessity  can  excuse  an  operation  in  such 
cases. 

5.  Insanity  after  operations  is  more  frequent  than  is  generally  be- 
lieved. 

In  addition  to  the  before-mentioned  abnormal  conditions  of  the  mind, 
the  changes  in  the  external  appearance  of  the  body,  the  return  of  the 
morbid  matter  to  the  place  where  the  operation  had  been  performed  or  to 
some  other  parts  of  the  body,  we  must  mention  the  increased  disposition 
of  tlie  operated  person  to  manifold  diseases,  for  instance  tuberculosis, 
obesity,  etc. 

In  view  of  all  these  facts  we  cannot  but  condemn  most  severely  all 
surgical  or  operative  treatment  of  diseases,  all  well  as  all  the  rest  of  the 
dubious  practices  of  the  allopathists  and  specialists.     Our  numerous  and 

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careful  investigations  recorded  in  this  book  furnish  sufficient  proof  that 
our  judgment  is  not  based  upon  blind,  prejudiced,  and  passionate  zeal, 
but  upon  mature  reflection  and  the  firm  conviction  that  we  are  able  to 
replace  the  faulty  doctrines  of  the  old  medical  science  by  a  new  and  better 
knowledge  which  is  destined  to  become  the  common  property  of  mankind. 

We  do  not  doubt  that  our  assertions  will  bring  us  many  adversaries; 
but  it  is  also  certain  that  time  and  experience  will  force  many  to  abandon 
their  opposition  and  become  converted  to  our  teachings. 

With  these  convictions  we  send  our  work  out  into  the  world.  May 
it  bring  new  hope  and  inspiration  to  all  those  poor  sufferers  upon  whom 
the  truth  is  dawning  that  medicine  poisons  and  surgical  knives  can  never 
bring  them  relief  and  health,  but  only  increased  pains  and  chronic  dis- 
ease! May  the  book  tend  to  free  humanity  from  the  nefarious  practices 
of  allopathy  whose  main  doctrines  were  evolved  by  ignorance,  greed,  and 
superstition,  partly  handed  down  from  barbarous  ages!  For  thousands 
of  years  man  was  systematically  kept  in  darkness  concerning  the  most 
fundamental  laws  of  nature,  in  order  that  he  may  be  more  easily  exploited 
by  those  who  claim  to  have  a  lease  on  science  and  the  art  of  healing. 
May  the  book  be  successful  in  propagating  the  truth  that  knowledge  is 
mightier  than  dogma  and  greed!  May  the  book  help  conscientious, 
intelligent  parents  to  protect  their  families  against  sickness  and  medicine 
poisons!  May  our  work  assist  in  raising  and  educating  a  healthier  and 
better  generation  which  will  strive  for  the  highest  ideals  of  mankind. 

And  last  but  not  least: — may  the  book  spread  the  teachings  of  nature 
cure  also  among  the  physicians,  so  that  they  may  recognize  as  the  most 
noble  task  of  their  vocation  to  make  themselves  dispensable,  that  is  to  say, 
the  professional  healer  must  finally  disappear  to  make  room  for  the  teacher 
of  hygiene! 


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INDEX. 


Abdomen,  52,  60,  61,  67,   75,   85, 

108,    136,    144;    fracture   of    the 

muscles  of  the,  144. 
Abscess,  16. 
Acarus  folliculorum,  20. 
Acarus  scabiei,  20. 
Accidents,    signs   after,    75;    first 

help  in,  118. 
Acupunktur,  50. 
Afterbirth,  50,  107. 
Air,  114. 
Air  baths,  108,  113,  114,  121,  124, 

133,  135. 
Agarophobia,  38,  58,  59. 
Albuminuria,  66,  69. 
Alcohol,  78,  79,  80,  86,  93,  96,  99. 
Allopathy,  9,  30,  44,  101,  143. 
Amniotic  fluid,  54. 
Anchylostonum  duodeuale,  72. 
Anemia,  83,  86,  107. 
Anger,  60. 
Angina  pectoris,  61. 
Ankle,  69,  75,  82. 
Annulus  senilis,  80. 
Anthelmintic,  83,  89. 
Antifebrin,  24. 
Antipyrin,  24,  62,  87,  123. 
Antipyretics,  127. 
Antitoxin,  26,  27,  28. 
Anus,  51,  71,  72,  92,  93,  115. 
Apathy,  123. 
Apoplexy,  38,  55,  7(>,  91. 
Appendicitis,  64,  92. 
Appendix  vermiformis,  64,  71,  S3, 

92,  94,  144. 
Apparent  death,  141,  142. 


Arm,  51,  59,  62,  63,  78,  88,  92,  98. 

Arsenic,  9,  24,  62,  69,  84,  14 J.  I  43. 

Asthma,  37,  49,  56,  86,  99,  115. 

Athletes,  99,  100. 

Athyrea,  82,  83. 

Atmosphere,  abnormal  state  of, 

131. 
Auditory  canal,  92. 
Autotoxins,  49,  120,  123. 
Azure,    the   normal   color   of   the 

eye,  12,  15. 

Bacilli,  43,  64,  87,  124,  131. 

Back,  56,  59,  60,  69,  75,  82,  83, 
01,94,95,128,138;  encumbrance 
of  the,  51,  138;  inflammation  of 
the,  52,  62;  pain  in  the,  24;  tu- 
berculous ulcerations  in  the,  99. 

Bacteria,  130. 

Bald  head,  126. 

Bandages,  wet,  see  Packs. 

Basedow's  Disease,  11,  83. 

Baths,  33. 

Baunscheidtismus,  50. 

Bedbugs,  141,  142. 

Bedsore,  g4. 

Beer,  arsenic  in  the,  142;  lead  in 
the,  24,  80. 

Belching,  24,  67,  71. 

Belladonna,  9. 

Bile,  75. 

Biliary  duct,  71. 

Births,  premature,  92. 

Bladder,  52,  58,  59,  60,  61,  69,  70, 
75,  83,  84,  92,  94,  136;  bleeding 
of  the,  82;  catarrh  of  the,  25,  88. 


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Blindness,  105. 

Blood,  corruption  of  the,  73,  80, 
111.  112,  113,  116,  121,  131;  for- 
mation of  the,  67;  impurity  of 
the,  33,  100,  115;  vomiting  of, 
24. 

Blood-poisoning,  33,  116,  117. 

Blood  vessels,  bursting  of,  36,  75; 
stagnation  in  the,  68. 

Boils,  24. 

Bones,  108. 

Bones,  pains  in  the,  13. 

Brain,  affections  of  the,  33,  59,  77, 
78,  97;  encumbrance  of  the,  55, 
58;  inflammation  of  the,  88,  92, 
93,  130;  mucous  membranes  of 
the,  21,  110;  softening  of  the,  73. 

Breathing,  110. 

Breast,  59. 

Bright's  Disease,  79. 

Brom,  9,  25,  65,  89. 

Brom-acne,  25. 

Bronchial  catarrh,  51,  60. 

Bronchial  tubes,  62,  123. 

Bronchitis,  79. 

Burns,  49,  118,  110. 

Buttocks,  65,  88,  91,  94. 

Cancer,  37,  63,  64,  89,  98,  111, 
112,144;  death  rate  of,  63;  ope- 
ration of,  63,  144. 

Cannibalism,  30. 

Capitalism,  27,  31. 

Carbolic  acid,  59,  75,  116. 

Carbuncles,  22. 

Caries,  64,  98,  122. 

Catalepsy,  141,  142. 

Catarrh,  signs  of,  34. 

Catarrhal  delects,  47. 

Cathartics.   L25. 

Caustics,  1  13. 

Cauterization,  90,  1 15,  144. 

Cecum,  60,  71 . 

Cheek,  =>2,  62,  To,  88,  89,  "I,  92, 
95. 


Chest,   62,  63,   78,  83,  92,  03,  98; 

tension  in  the,  24. 
Chest-shoulder  bandage,  137. 
Child,  care  of  the,  107;  nursing  of 

the,  107. 
Cholera  asiatica,  03,  IK),  111. 
Cholera  infantum,  110. 
Cholerine,  24,  110,  111. 
Christian  Science,  56. 
Chyle,  72. 
Chylification,  67. 
Chymification,  67. 
Circulation  of  the  blood,  85. 
Circumcision,  95,  96. 
Clay  plaster,  110,  138. 
Closet  paper,  72,  136. 
Cocain,  25,  89. 
Coccyx,  91,  95. 
Coecum,  see  Cecum. 
Cold-water  applications,    98,    100, 
110,    111,    113,    114,    124,    135- 
138. 
Cold   water,   sitting  on,    116,  121, 

136. 
Colds,  49,  112,  123. 
Colic,    gastric,    37;  intestinal,    37, 
68,  111,  13b;   menstrual,  37,  "2, 
115. 
Collar-bone,   65. 

Colon,   ascending,  60,  61,   72;  de- 
scending, 60,  72,  93;  S-shaped, 
transversum,  72. 
Colon,  flushing  of  the,  L25. 
Color  of    the   iris,    acquired,    19; 
natural,  1(>;  reproduction  of  the, 
46. 
Comets,  131. 
Complexion,  114,  126. 
Conjunctiva,  6. 
Constipation,  59,  67,  <>(>,  70,    80, 

83,  1  L3,  L15,  125. 
Consumption,  72,  7",  85. 
Copper,   141,   142,  143. 
Cornea,  6. 
Corns,  ol,  113. 


I  Is 


Corset,    injurious   effects   of    the, 

53,  62,  107. 
Corset  iron,  93. 
Coryza,   123. 
Cough,  13,  24. 
Cough  medicines,  85. 
Cramps,  28,  38,  58. 
Cramp  rings,  37,  40,  51,  %. 
Creosote,  24,  52,  57,  62,  65,  84. 
Crisis,   37,    43,   97,    106,  123,  124, 

125,    127;    characteristics   of   a, 

124,  125. 
Cross-eyed,  83. 
Crying-spells,  86. 
Cyst,  sebaceous,  82,  89. 
Cures,  duration  of,  126. 
Cupping,  dry,  127. 
Critical  days,  130. 

Dandruff,  24,  74,  108. 

Deafness,  91,  106. 

Death,  premature,  55. 

Debility,  77. 

Decubitus,  see  Bedsore. 

Defects,    acquired,    36;    catarrhal, 

36,  37;   hereditary,  36,  40. 
Delirium  tremens,  38. 
Dementia,   paretic,  122,  144. 
Diabetis  melittus,  66,  70,  97,  122. 
Diagnosis,  facial,  10;  the  old  ways 

of,  9,  10,  102. 
Diaphragm,  37,  52,  61,  66,  69,  88, 

94. 
Diarrhea,   40,   69,  78,  80,  93,  106, 

110. 
Diet,  importance    of,    50,    87,    88, 

98,  99,  100. 
Diet  reform,  133. 
Digestion,  72,  135. 
Digestive  troubles,  60,  67,  144. 
Digitalis,  9. 

Diphtheria,  27,  76,  109. 
Dipsomania,  78. 
Diseases,    acute,    iiy    122;    causes 

of,  33,  86;  chronic,  S.">,  126. 


Diseases,  contagious,  111,  130; 
curability  of,  106;  definition  of, 
15,  21;  suppression  of,  16,  44, 
127-130;  of  children,  10,S;  irra- 
tional treatment  of,  36,  106. 

Diuretic,  83. 

Dizziness,  38. 

Dormitive,  110,  138. 

Drinkers,  mortality  of,  79. 

Dropsy,  78,  79,  82,  138. 

Drunkards,  78. 

Drunkenness,  58. 

Duodenum,  71. 

Dusting-powder,  57. 

Dyscrasia,  111. 

Dyspepsia,  115. 

Dysuria,  69. 

Ears,   58,   65,    70,    75,   86,  92,  96, 

97,  108;  ringing  in  the,  14,  59; 

ulceration  in  the,  52. 
Earlap,  82. 
Earthquakes,  131. 
Eczema,  25,  48,  49. 
Edema,  78. 
Elbow,  62,  65. 
Electricity,  76,  125,  122. 
Electric  needle,  114. 
Elefantiasis,  65. 
Emaciation,  126. 
Encephalomalacia,  73. 
Encumbrance  with  morbid  matter, 

10,  21,  33. 
Epidemics,  25,  33,  101,  130-132. 
Epilepsy,   38,    47,   51,   55,   58,  50, 

65,    71,    78,   89,   93;    caused  by 

worms,  72,  89. 
Epistaxis,  see  Bleeding  of  the  nose. 
Epithelioma,  05. 
Equilibrium,  loss  of,  38,  58. 
Equisitum  arvense,  117. 
Erasion,  55,  113. 
Erysipelas,  24,  64,  76,  70,  04. 
Esophagus,  56,  57,  60,  63,  85,  98. 
Esophagostenosis,  56. 


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Eustachian  tubes,  130. 

Evolution,  5. 

Excision,  1 13. 

Exostosis,  82. 

Exploratory  incision,  ,)s. 

Eye,  52,  59,  62,  76,  82,  92,  97,106, 
108. 

Eyes,  blue,  12,  15  18;  brown,  15, 
16,  18,  19;  cataract  of  the,  96; 
catarrh  of  tbe,  65;  color  of  the, 
inflammation  of  the,  62,  84; 
mixed  colored,  16,  18,  ll);  ac- 
quired colors  of  the,   L9. 

Eyeball,  6,  83;  protrusion  of,  83. 

Eyebrows,  6. 

Eyelashes,  6,  11,  76,  80. 

Eyelids,  6,  11,  80,  83. 

Faintings,  38,  52,  55,  59,  75,  "1. 

Faith  cure,  56. 

Fasting,  105,  110,  123. 

Feet,  ailments  of  the,  97,  138;  cold, 

68,    115,   125;  open,   1(>,  50,  55; 

sweating  of  the,  19,  48,  49,  50, 

57,  96,  110. 
Female  diseases,  operations  in,  51, 

144. 
Fermentation,  67,  86. 
Fetus,   54. 
Fever,  106,  110,  112,  115,  131,  137; 

intermittent,  110. 
Finger,  injury  of  the,  61. 
Fistula,  22,  83. 
Flatulence,  67,  69,  138. 
Flexura  sigmoidea,    see   Colon  vS- 

shaped. 
Fluorescin,  142,  1-U. 
Fontanel,  4(>,  50,  1  15. 
Foot,  gangrene  of  the,  59. 
Food,   cooking  of,    133,    134;  pre- 

digesled,  132. 
Forehead,  5s,  60,  78,  82,  88,  "7. 
Forgetfulness,  80. 
Fruit  jukes,  <><>,  85,  86. 
Fruit  sugar,  *<>. 


Fruitarian  diet,  2d.  88,  93,  105, 
106,  108,  113,  114,  120,  125, 
L29,  133. 

Functional  defects,  144. 

Furuncles,  65,  127,   128,  138. 

Gall  stones,  7(i. 

Galvanocautery,  89. 

Ganglion,  93. 

Gangrene,  59,  112,  122. 

General  treatment  of  the  body,  10. 

Genital  organs,  see  Sexnal  organs. 

Germs,  87,  132,  134. 

Giddiness,  96. 

Glands,  lachrymal,  74;  irritation  of  i 
the,  24;  peritoneal,  tuberculosis 
of  the,  77;  sebaceous.  82,  92. 

Glandular  extracts,  29-31,  73. 

Glaus,  92,  95. 

Globus  hystericus,  85. 

Glycerine,  69,  80,  114. 

Goitre,  83,  94. 

Gonorrhea,  32,  51,  88.  110-122. 

Gout,  70,  80,  128. 

Grave's  Disease,  83. 

Gravel,   70. 

Groin,  78,  80,  88,  04;  rupture  of 
the.  88. 

Hair,  108,  114;  abnormal  growth 
of,  114;  arsenic  in  the,  142,  143; 
artificial  coloring  of  the,  114; 
change  of  color,  91,  114. 

Hands,  sweating  of  the,  4l>,  51,  55. 

Hashish,  25. 

Head,  encumbrance  of  the,  51,  58; 
inflammation  of  the,  52,  04,  138; 
suppuration  in  the,  ()7. 

Headache,  14,  91 ,  129,   1 30. 

Healing,  signs  of,  38. 

Heart,  61,  75,  98,  108,  1  W,  1  »; 
affection  of  the,  33,  108,  1  *7; 
failure,  79,  7l>;  fattv  defenera- 
tion of  the,  7l»;  palpitation  of 
the.  78,  B3. 


150 


Hearing,  hard  of,  96. 

Hematoma,  82. 

Hemorrhoids,   39,   49,   52,   56,  59, 

80,  115,  136. 
Herb  teas,  133. 
Hiccough,  88. 
Hip,  52,  58,  61,  62,63,  66,  69,  75, 

80,  83,  94,  98. 
Hip-joint,  infantile  dislocation  of 

the,  37,  62,  94,  107. 
Homeopathy,  9,  13.  30,  141. 
Homeopathic  remedies,   109,   110, 

111,  113,  115-117,  121. 
Homosexuality,  90. 
Hot  air,  132,  137. 
Hot  water,  132,  133. 
Hydrocele,  88. 
Hydrophobia,  26,  28,  29. 
Hypochondriasis,  66. 
Hysteria,  38,  51,  85. 

Ice-bag,  69,  74,  83,  88,  116. 

Ichor,  122. 

Ichthyol,  9,  56,  91. 

Ilium,  71. 

Imbecility,   79. 

Impotency,  58,  90. 

Indigestion,  78. 

Indisposition,  110,  138. 

Induration,  122. 

Inebriety,  38. 

Infants,  care  of  the,  33;  measure- 
ments of  the  newborn,  53;  mor- 
tality of  the,  134. 

Inflammation,  34,  35,  47,  110,  138. 

Influenza,   13,  25,  26,  52,  62,  123. 

Inhalation,  89. 

Insanity,  78,  144. 

Insect  powders,  142. 

Intellectual  powers,  defects  of,  38, 
51,  55,  57,  58,  73,  74,  79,  88.  91, 
96,  97,  144. 

Intemperance,  107. 

Intestines,  61,  68-73,  83,  111,  136, 
138. 


Intestines,  catarrh  of  the,  24,  33, 
52,  66,  108,  134;  divisions  of 
the,  71;  encumbrance  of  the, 
58;  inflammation  of  the,  31,  66, 
111. 

Intoxication,  77. 

Iodine,  9,  13,  14,  24,  61,  62,  65, 
80,  82,  89,  91,  94. 

Iris,  6;  color  of  the,  34,  108,  126; 
the  normal  color  of  the,  12,  15; 
density  of  the,  33,  34. 

Iron,  14,  71. 

Irritability,  144. 

Itch,  15,  24,  25,  60,  61,  63,  64,  66, 
70,  94,  99,  111-113;  suppressed, 
19,  37,  47,  57,  75,  86,  112. 

Jaundice,  57. 

Jaw,  60,  76,  91;  swelling  of  the, 
57. 

Jejunum,  71. 

Jettatura,  5. 

Joints,  dislocation  of  the,  138;  in- 
flammation of  the,  138;  stiff- 
ness of  the,  84. 

Key  to  the  diagnosis  from  the  eye, 
39-42. 

Kidneys,  57,  60,  61,  69,  70,  75,  78, 
79,  80,  83,  92,  96,  138;  defects 
of  the,  48;  inflammation  of  the, 
49,  52,  88,  96;  suppuration  of 
the,  122. 

Knee,  61,  75;  swelling  of  the,  82; 
tuberculosis  of  the,  98. 

Kneecap,  fracture  of  the,  93. 

Lacteals,  72. 
Lactiferous  glands,  54. 
Language,  uniform,  by  the  signs 

of  the  eye,  47. 
Laryngitis,  79. 
Larynx,  27,  52,  59,  60,  62,  69,  76, 

79,  83,  86,  88,  89,  95. 
Lead,  24,  80;  colic,  24. 


151 


Leeches,  127. 

Leg,  defects  of  the,  58,  62,  65,  Ts: 
emaciated,  106,  129;  protrusion 
of  the  veins  of  the,  S3;  shot- 
wound  in  the,  63;  swelling  of 
the,  57. 

Lens  of  the  eye,  opacity  of  the,  l)<>. 

Lepra,  65. 

Leucorrhea,   115. 

Lice,  crab,  20,  33,  57;  head,  20, 
84,  91. 

Lichen,  25,  49,  110. 

Liuen,  114. 

Liquors,  intoxicating,  7(>,  86. 

Liver,  56,  61,  67,  60,  70,  75,  79, 
80,  82,  83,  127. 

Locomotor  ataxia,  95. 

Looking-glass,  magnifying,  47. 

Lungs,  51,  57,  59,  69,  75,  85,  86, 
99,  137,  138;  catarrh  of  the,  52, 
56,  69,  80,  99;  defects  of  the, 
40,  48,  73,  97;  diseases  of  the, 
10,  11,  19,  85;  inflammation  of 
the,  37,  49,  58,  61,  66,  73,  93, 
96,  137;  roots  of  the,  80;  signs 
after  bleeding,  52,  56,  80;  tuber- 
culosis of  the,  28,  48,  78,  79,  85, 
91,  95. 

Lupus,  64,  88. 

Lymph,  9,  43,  85;  corruption  of 
the,  73,  100,  111,  112,  116, 
121,  131;  formation  of  the,  67; 
glands,  13. 

Madness,  79. 
Magnetism,  130,  140. 
Malaria,  \.">,  14. 
Massage,   125,  132,  133. 
Mastication,  67,  72,  134, 
Masturbation,  87,  83. 
Matter,  divisibility  of ,  141. 
Measles,  19,  84,  96,  109,  1  10. 
Medicine,  forensic,  143. 
Medicine  poisoning,  47. 

Midi,  ines,    I  I ;   signs  of,  37. 


Medium,  spiritualistic,  55. 

Melancholy,  74,  92. 

Meningitis,  79,  110. 

Menses,   115. 

Mental  defects,  92;  depression,  77. 

Mercury,  9,  15,  20-22,  55,  69,  84, 

92,  93,  121,  127-129,  142,  143. 
Mesenterium,  72. 
Metabolism,  134. 
Microbes,  67,  87,  130,    131. 
Migraine,  91. 
Milk,    of    the   cow,    H,    77,    107; 

mothers'.    77,    107;    boiling    of 

the,  diluting  of  the,  33,  134. 
Milk  scurf,  suppression  of  the,  19, 

33,  37,  44,  49,  68,   71,   85,    100, 

106. 
Mineral  waters,  125. 
Miscarriages,   144. 
Mite  (acarus  scabiei),  discovery  of 

the,  112. 
Morphin,  59. 
Morphinism,  59. 
Morphiomaniac,  59. 
Mosquito  bite,   treatment  of  the, 

117. 
Mouth,    52,    58,    76,    89,    92;    bad 

smell  out  of  the,  67,  71;  bitter 

taste  in  the,  78. 
Mucous   membrane,   inflammation 

of  the,  24,  30,  4«>,  85. 
Mucus,  vomiting  of,  24. 
Mucus  hemorrhoids,  52,  59. 
Mumps,  (>1 . 
Muscles,  atrophy  of  the,  78;  pain 

in  the,  24. 
Myom,  83. 

Narcotics,  77,  96,  98,  99. 

Nature  cure,  9,  10.  (>7.  99,  101, 
105,  132,  133;  healing-factors  of 
the,  132-140;  prejudice  against 
the,  76. 

Nature  cures,  reports  of ,  127. 

Navel,  rupture  of  the,  ,|". 


]  52 


Navel  string,  cutting  of  the,  107. 
Neck,  65,  80,  82,94,95;  glands,  82, 

86,  91;  inflammation  of  the,  94, 

muscles  of  the,   52,   56,  65,  95; 

swelling  of  the,  51,  78,  82,  95. 
Nephritis,  suppurative,  48. 
Nerve,  optical,  62,  76,  83. 
Nerve  clouds,  62. 
Nerve  rings,  37,  40,  47,  62,  86,  92, 

96. 
Nervous  system,  58,  59,  67,  68,  78. 
Nervousness,  97,   138,   144;   signs 

of,  37,  77. 
Nettle-rash,  24,  138. 
Neural  analysis,  14. 
Neuralgia,  95. 

Neurasthenia,  58;  signs  of,  37. 
Neurotics,  131. 
Nihilistic  physicians,  143. 
Nipple,  65,  82,  92    93. 
Nitrogenous  foods,  over-supply  of, 

54. 
Nose,   52,   57-60,   62,   69,   76,    80, 

89,  92,   95,   106,    123;    bleeding 

of  the,  91,  97;  catarrh  of  the, 

65,  123. 

Obstetrician,  62. 

Obesity,  126,  144. 

Occiput,  60,  65,  69,  70,  75,  80,  82, 

86,  89,  92,  97. 
Operations,  13,  31,  32,  62,  64,  115. 
Opium,  25,  111. 
Organs,    decay  of,    36;    defective, 

signs  of,  34. 
Osteopathy,  10. 
Ossicles,  auditory,  65. 
Ovary,   37,  59,  82,  92,  96;  tumor 

in  the,  82. 
Over-eating,  54. 
Ozema,  see  Nose,  catarrh  of  the. 

Packs,  wet,  136,   137. 

Pains,  magnetic  treatment  of,  140. 

Palpitations  of  the  heart,  98. 


Pancreas,  70. 

Pancreatic  duct,  71. 

Paper  embossed,  47. 

Paralysis,  22,  24,  79,  123,  142;  in- 
fantile spinal,  106. 

Parotidis,  91. 

Parturition,  52,  107. 

Pasteurism,  26,  28,  29. 

Patterns,  for  sketching,  47. 

Pediculosis  capitis,  20;  pubis,  20. 

Pelvis,  53,  61,  69,  94. 

Penis,  51,  95;  bending  of  the,  82. 

Percussing,  10. 

Perfumes,  141. 

Perineum,  58. 

Peritoneum,  72. 

Perspiration,  cold,  24. 

Phenacetin,  87,  91. 

Phimosis,  95. 

Phosphorus,  24,  52,  61,  117. 

Photography  of  the  iris,  46,  96, 
110. 

Phrenology,  102. 

Phthisis,  122. 

Physical  culture,  99,  100. 

Piles,  70,  115;  bleeding  of  the,  116. 

Pimples,  20,  62,  138. 

Placenta  praevia,  54. 

Plague,  131. 

Planets,  constellation  of,  130,  131. 

Pleura,  58,  65.  73;  inflammation 
of  the,  52,  61,  137. 

Pleuritis,  see  above. 

Pneumonia,  48,  79. 

Pneumopyothorax,  32. 

Poliomyelitis  anterior,  see  Paraly- 
sis, infantile  spinal. 

Pollution,  90. 

Polyps,  13,  69,  89. 

Potassium  bichromate,  57. 

Pot-cheese,  110,  139. 

Practice  of  the  diagnosis  from  the 
eye,  45-103. 

Prayer  cure,  56. 

Predisposition,  112. 


153 


Pregnancy,   abnormal    desires  du- 
ring, 135;  care  during,   54,  68, 

107. 
Prenatal  influences,  62. 
Prepuce,  95,  96. 
Protein,  daily  need  of,  54. 
Psora,  44,  61,  112. 
Ptyalism,  142. 
Pugilists,  99,  100. 
Pupil  of  the  eye,  11,  39. 
Pus,  122. 
Pustules,  92,  93. 
Putrefaction,  67,  85,  122. 
Pyloric  system,  69. 
Pylorus,  63,  70,  71. 

Quinine,  13,  14,f22,  23,  52,  57,  71, 
116,  120. 

Rachitis,  109. 

Radii  solares,  11,  38,  47,  51,  52. 

Radium,  114. 

Raw  food,  123,   133-135;   vitality 

of,  134. 
Rectum,  59,  66,  60,  70,  72,  73,  75, 

80,  83,  93. 
Respiratory  system,  21. 
Restlessness,  97. 
Rheumatism,  22,  51,  70,  98. 
Ribs,  75,  80,  83. 
Rickets,  134. 

Roentgen  rays,  10,  102,  142. 
Rubber  stockings,  57. 
Ruptures,  126. 

Saliva,  72. 

Salivation,  142. 

Salts,  inorganic,  134;  organic,  85, 

134. 
Salves,  48,  112. 
Salycilic  acid,  24,  (><>,  SO,  84. 
Saponification,  o7. 
Scabies,  see  Itch. 
Scalds,  4'*,  118,   II" 
Scalp,  pain  in  the,  24;  wetting  of 

the,  124. 


Scarlet  fever,  19,  8  2,  91,  106,  109, 

110. 
Sclerotica,  6. 

Scratching  of  skin  eruptions,  108. 
Scrofula,  11,  80,  86,  91,  108,   109, 

131,  134. 
Scurf- rim,   15,   47,   49,  51,  52,  55, 

58,  80,  83,  84,  108,  12" 
Seborrhea  capitis,  108. 
Self-diagnosis,  47. 
Self-pollution,  see  Masturbation. 
Self-reform,  80. 

Serpents,  bites  of,  117. 

Sexual  life,  abnormities  of  the,  38 

59,  65,  87,  89,  90. 
Sexual  maturity,  84. 

Sexual  organs,  87,  144;  diseases  of 
the,  11,  22,  35,  52,  94,  115,  119 
-122,  138. 

Shanker,  58,  119-121. 

Shinbone,  outgrowth  of  the,  82; 
suppuration  on  the,  93. 

Short  pack,  137. 

Shortsightedness,  76. 

Shoulder,  51,  52,  56,  61,  62,  63, 
65,  78,  80. 

Shoulderblade,  92,  93. 

Signs  in  the  iris,  reproduction  of 
the,  35. 

Silver  nitrate,  80. 

Silver  wire,  93. 

Sitting  on  cold  water,  83. 

Sketching  of  the  iris,  46,  47. 

Skin,  abnormal  color  of  the,  67, 
ION,  122,  123;  defectsof  the,  40; 
diseases  of  the,  15,  19,  24,  25, 
33,  88,  98,  100-113,  138;  func- 
tion of  the,  40,  85,  108-110,  137; 
impurities  of  the,  113,  114;  mal- 
treatment of  the,  84,  98,  ins. 
113-115;   vesicles  of  the,  43. 

Skull,  roof  of  the,  75,  "7. 

Sleeping  naked,  L23,  138. 

Sleeplessness,  91,    125. 


154 


Soap,  108,  112,  114. 

Social  problems,  SO. 

Soft  ran,  110. 

Sores,  84,  138;  open,  16,  24,  36, 
48. 

Specialists,  44,  56,  <>j,  65,  76,  89, 
101,  106,  143,  144. 

Spine,  66,  93;  curvature  of  the, 
57,  93. 

Spiritism,  55. 

Spleen,  61,  66,  69,  75,  80,  83,  94. 

Steam  baths,  132,  137. 

Sterility,  126. 

Sternum,  75,  92. 

Stimulants,  77,  96,  98,  99. 

Stings  of  insects,  138. 

Stomach,  52,  58,  60,  63,  68-70,  72, 
79,  85,  110,  124;  cancer  of  the, 
66,  71;  catarrh  of  the,  33,  52, 
66,  79,  84,  108,  134,  138;  cramps 
of  the,  68;  dilatation  of  the,  71, 
77,  80;  inertia  of  the,  71;  in- 
flammation, 31;  mouth  of  the, 
71,  98;  pain  in  the,  24,  93;  ulcer- 
ation of  the,  71;  the  six  classes 
of  the  defects  of  the,  70-71. 

Strychnine,  24,  57,  69,  73,  89. 

Subsoil  water,  130. 

Substance,  loss  of,  36,  47,  48,  81, 
82. 

Sudorific  after  colds,  138. 

Sulphur,  20. 

Summer  complaints,  110,  134. 

Sun  baths,  135. 

Sunlight,  88,  132. 

Suppurations,  85. 

Sweat,  cold,  78. 

Swellings,  128. 

Sycosis,  44. 

Syphilis,  26,  44,  94,  120-122,  128, 
129,  143;  vaccination  against, 
119. 

Syringe,  morphium,  59. 

Syringing,  injurious  effects  of, 
125,  132. 


Tabes  mesenterica,  77. 

Tapeworm,  72,  74. 

Tar  salves,  49. 

Teachings  of  the  diagnosis   from 

the  eye,  15. 
Teeth,   97,    134;  tartar   upon   the, 

69,  76. 
Temperaments,  43,  so. 
Temple,  60,  97. 

Tendo- vaginal  inflammation,  93. 
Testicles,  82,  88. 
Thigh,  63,  69,  75,  78,  91,  "2. 
Thoracic  duct,  72. 
Thorax,  75,  82,  92. 
Thread-worms,  70,  72. 
Throat,  109,  138. 
Thyroid  gland,  51,  73,  82,  85,  89, 

95. 
Tidal  waves,  130,  131. 
Tobacco,  99. 

Tongue,  85,  91;  coated,  124. 
Toothache,  treatment  of,  110. 
Torticollis,  65,  94. 
Trachea,  51,  52,  59,  60,  62,  76,  80, 

90,  95. 
Traumatism,  75,  93. 
Tremor,  83. 
Trichinosis,  11,  72. 
Tropics,  life  in  the,  22,  23. 
Tuberculin,  28. 
Tuberculosis,   25,   64,   78,   79,  88, 

89,  98,  144. 

Tumors,  50,  92,  112,  115,  122,  138, 
144;  cold,  37,  138;  containing 
blood,  82;  muscular,  83. 

Turpentine,  25,  83. 

Typhoid  fever,  11,  32,  6b,  67,  79, 

91,  94,   110;   symptoms  of,   b6; 
treatment  of,  66. 

Ulcers,  24,  49,50,  81,  82,  112,  122, 
138,  142. 

Urethra,  51,  69,  70,  88. 

Urethra,  catarrh  of  the,  see  Gon- 
orrhea. 


155 


Uric  acid,  70. 

Urine,  albumen  in  the,  see  Albu- 
minuria; blood  in  the,  75;  re- 
tention of  the,  83,  136;  sand  in 
the,  69,  70;  sugar  in  the,  see 
Diabetes. 

Uterus,  37,  52,  54,  56,  00,  0.3,  107, 
144;  prolapsus  of  the,  62,  92. 

Vaccination,  0,  13,  25,  26,  28,  33, 
58,  65,  68,  73,  100,  101. 

Vagina,  92,  115,  144;  rinsing  of 
the,  115.  125. 

Varicose  veins,  57,  82,  88,  138. 

Vegetarian  diet,  see  Fruitarian 
diet. 

Venter,  preponderation  of  the,  54. 

Vertex,  58,  60,  75,  80,  96. 

Villi,  72. 


Vitalism,  134. 
Vivisection,  29. 
Voice,  defects  of  the,  59. 
Volcanoes,  131 . 
Vomiting,  111,  124. 

Warts,  drooping,  83;  treatment  of, 

113. 
Water,  boiled,  111;  distilled,    111. 
Weeping,  tearless,  74. 
Weeping-cramps,  38. 
Whip-worms,  72. 
Whooping-cough,  109. 
Will,  impaired,  38,  51,  55,  59,  73. 
Windows,  open,  123. 
Wine,  injurious  effects  of,  78. 
Wool,  114. 
Worm  remedies,  83,  89. 

forms,  72,  89;  in  the  thorax,  32. 


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